Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, Ki…

To what did the monkey's pursuit of the Prince finally bind him, according to the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrative, monkey · What happens: do, bind, accord, pursue · To what, where: pursuit, monkey, Prince

This is exam question 4 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	To	to	SCONJ	_	3 did	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 narrative	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 monkey	det
5	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pursuit	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 monkey	case
7	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Prince	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Prince	det
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 pursuit	nmod
11	finally	finally	ADV	_	12 bind	advmod
12	bind	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bind	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
15	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 narrative	case
16	to	to	ADP	_	15 according	fixed
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 narrative	det
18	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 narrative	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the narrative	the monkey's pursuit of the Prince		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pursuit=Eventuality
2	bind	present	the narrative not said here	monkey	finally property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	pursue		the monkey	the Prince		nom pursuit «act transitive»: poss=agent 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

a pledge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pledge	det
2	pledge	pledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a vow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 vow	det
2	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a solemn oath to obey it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 oath	det
2	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 oath	amod
3	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 obey	mark
5	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 oath	acl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 obey	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obey	to-infinitive		oath					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a promise to follow it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 promise	det
2	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 follow	mark
4	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promise	acl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 follow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	to-infinitive		promise					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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