Exam question 1 · Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu, part 1: the prince breaks…

Pursuant to the Jogis' prophecy, for how many years was the infant Rasalu required to remain concealed from the light of day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prophecy · What happens: be, remain, conceal, light · To what, where: light, day

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1840 «Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu, part 1: the prince breaks the pitchers at the well» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	6 prophecy	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	6 prophecy	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Jogis	det
4	Jogis	Jogis	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 prophecy	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 Jogis	case
6	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 required	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 years	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 years	case
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 many	advmod
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 years	amod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 prophecy	obl:unmarked
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 required	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Rasalu	det
14	infant	infant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Rasalu	amod
15	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 required	nsubj
16	required	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	18 remain	mark
18	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 required	xcomp
19	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 remain	xcomp
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 light	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 light	det
22	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 concealed	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 day	case
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 light	nmod
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 required	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Jogis's prophecy			require property	tree rules
2	remain	to-infinitive	the Jogis's prophecy not said here				tree rules
3	conceal	participle	the Jogis's prophecy not said here		the light of day		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from light=Beneficiary
4	light			day			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

eleven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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