Exam question 3 · Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, Ki…

What was the principal reason for which the Prince elected to disembark at a distance from the town?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: be, elect, disembark · To what, where: principal reason

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1889 «Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, King Bayard tells his tale, and a monkey leads the Prince away» 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	5 reason	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 elected	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prince	det
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 elected	nsubj
10	elected	elect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 disembark	mark
12	disembark	disembark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 elected	xcomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 distance	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 distance	det
15	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 disembark	obl
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 town	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 town	det
18	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 distance	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal reason		tree rules
2	elect	past	the Prince		for the principal reason	tree rules
3	disembark	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here		at a distance from the town	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 had run out of coins

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	3 run	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 coins	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 coins	case
6	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past · perfect	he			coins			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out coin=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he lacked funds

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 lacked	nsubj
2	lacked	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	funds	fund	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lacked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lack	past	he	funds					tree rules

Option 3

he was afraid of soldiers

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	3 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 soldiers	case
5	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					of soldiers; afraid property	tree rules

Option 4

he was poor

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	3 poor	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 poor	cop
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					poor property	tree rules

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