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Exam question 3 · Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, pa…

To what region did the horse convey the prince following his escape from the stable?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: region, you, prince · What happens: do, convey, follow, escape · To what, where: horse, prince, escape, stable

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1845 «Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, part 29: Katar hides the prince, then the prince becomes a poor servant» 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

caseoblnsubjacl:relcldetobjdetobjaclnmod:possobjcasedetoblpunctrootToADPwhatPRONregionNOUNdidVERBtheDEThorseNOUNconveyVERBtheDETprinceNOUNfollowingVERBhisPRONescapeNOUNfromADPtheDETstableNOUN?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TotoADP_2 whatcase
2whatwhatPRONPronType=Rel7 conveyobl
3regionregionNOUNNumber=Sing4 didnsubj
4diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 whatacl:relcl
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 horsedet
6horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing4 didobj
7conveyconveyVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 princedet
9princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing7 conveyobj
10followingfollowVERBVerbForm=Ger9 princeacl
11hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 escapenmod:poss
12escapeescapeNOUNNumber=Sing10 followingobj
13fromfromADP_15 stablecase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 stabledet
15stablestableNOUNNumber=Sing10 followingobl
16??PUNCT_7 conveypunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dopastregionthe horsevn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality
2conveyimperativeyou not said herethe princevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Topic to what=Recipient
3followgerundthe prince not said hereregion's escapethe stablevn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent escape=Theme from stable=Trajectory
4escaperegionnom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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

To a forest in a distant land

casedetcasedetamodnmodrootToADPaDETforestNOUNinADPaDETdistantADJlandNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TotoADP_3 forestcase
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art3 forestdet
3forestforestNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
4ininADP_7 landcase
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 landdet
6distantdistantADJDegree=Pos7 landamod
7landlandNOUNNumber=Sing3 forestnmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To a jungle in another country

casedetcasedetnmodrootToADPaDETjungleNOUNinADPanotherDETcountryNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TotoADP_3 junglecase
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art3 jungledet
3junglejungleNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
4ininADP_6 countrycase
5anotheranotherDETPronType=Ind6 countrydet
6countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing3 junglenmod

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

Option 3

To a jungle in another country where he was safe

casedetcasedetnmodadvmodnsubjcopacl:relclrootToADPaDETjungleNOUNinADPanotherDETcountryNOUNwhereADVhePRONwasAUXsafeADJ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TotoADP_3 junglecase
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art3 jungledet
3junglejungleNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
4ininADP_6 countrycase
5anotheranotherDETPronType=Ind6 countrydet
6countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing3 junglenmod
7wherewhereADVPronType=Rel10 safeadvmod
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 safensubj
9wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 safecop
10safesafeADJDegree=Pos6 countryacl:relcl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispasthesafe propertytree rules

Option 4

To a deep jungle in another country far away

casedetamodcasedetnmodadvmodadvmodrootToADPaDETdeepADJjungleNOUNinADPanotherDETcountryNOUNfarADVawayADV
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TotoADP_4 junglecase
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 jungledet
3deepdeepADJDegree=Pos4 jungleamod
4junglejungleNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
5ininADP_7 countrycase
6anotheranotherDETPronType=Ind7 countrydet
7countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing4 junglenmod
8farfarADVDegree=Pos9 awayadvmod
9awayawayADV_4 jungleadvmod

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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