Exam question 4 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Demon with the Matted Hair, part 1…
What was the outcome of the vizier's son's journey to the farmer's household?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: son · What happens: be, journey · To what, where: outcome
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1850 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Demon with the Matted Hair, part 1: the prince meets the Demon in the forest» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 outcome | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 outcome | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 outcome | det |
| 4 | outcome | outcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 journey | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vizier | det |
| 7 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 vizier | case |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 journey | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 son | case |
| 11 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 outcome | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 household | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 farmer | det |
| 14 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 household | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 farmer | case |
| 16 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 journey | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 outcome | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the outcome | of the vizier's son's journey to the farmer's household | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | journey | the vizier's son | to the farmer's household | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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
He married the farmer's girl and left for court
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 married | nsubj |
| 2 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 farmer | det |
| 4 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 girl | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 farmer | case |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 married | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 married | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 court | case |
| 10 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | He | the farmer's girl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | He not said here | for court | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for court=Recipient |
Option 2
He married the maid and returned to the palace
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 married | nsubj |
| 2 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maid | det |
| 4 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 married | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 returned | cc |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 married | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | He | the maid | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Patient | ||||
| 2 | return | past | He not said here | to the palace result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result |
Option 3
He married her
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 married | nsubj |
| 2 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 married | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | He | her = she | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
He married the farmer's daughter and returned to save his father
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 married | nsubj |
| 2 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 farmer | det |
| 4 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 farmer | case |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 married | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 returned | cc |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 married | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 save | mark |
| 10 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 returned | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 save | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | He | the farmer's daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | return | past | He not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | save | to-infinitive | He not said here | farmer's father | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme |
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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