Exam question 3 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princess, part 30: the pr…

By what stratagem did the prince obtain provisions for the six princes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: stratagem, prince · What happens: do, obtain · To what, where: provisions

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1846 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princess, part 30: the prince turns handsome, tricks his brothers-in-law and is refused at the gate» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	stratagem	stratagem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 obtain	nsubj
7	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 obtain	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 princes	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princes	det
11	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 princes	nummod
12	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 obtain	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	stratagem						tree rules
2	obtain	present	the prince	provisions				for the six princes	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent provision=Theme for prince=Asset

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 · ✓ the right answer

He branded each back with a heated pice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 branded	nsubj
2	branded	brand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 back	det
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 branded	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 pice	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pice	det
7	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 pice	amod
8	pice	pice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 branded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brand	past	He	each back				with a heated pice	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Destination with pice=Theme
2	heat	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

He branded each of the six princes' backs with a heated pice coin and got food

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 branded	nsubj
2	branded	brand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 branded	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 backs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princes	det
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 princes	nummod
7	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 backs	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 princes	case
9	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 each	nmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	14 coin	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 coin	det
12	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 coin	amod
13	pice	pice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coin	compound
14	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 branded	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 got	cc
16	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 branded	conj
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	brand	past	He	each	with a heated pice coin	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent each=Destination with coin=Theme
2	heat	participle				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	get	past	He not said here	food		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus

Option 3

He marked each back with a heated coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 marked	nsubj
2	marked	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 back	det
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marked	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 coin	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 coin	det
7	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 coin	amod
8	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	past	He	each back				with a heated coin	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Destination with coin=Theme
2	heat	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

He pressed a red-hot pice onto each brother's back to mark them

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pressed	nsubj
2	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pice	det
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pice	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 red	punct
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pice	amod
7	pice	pice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pressed	obj
8	onto	onto	ADP	_	12 back	case
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 brother	det
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 back	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 brother	case
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pressed	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 mark	mark
14	mark	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pressed	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mark	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	past	He	a red hot pice		each brother's back			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pice=Theme
2	mark	to-infinitive	He not said here	them = they					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination

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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