Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 27: a little monkey sho…

exam: Which action did the Prince perform in order to reveal the gold within the single rock?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: exam · What happens: reveal · To what, where: gold

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1890 «Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 27: a little monkey shows the Prince a rock of gold, and the Princess Sabella is found to have no heart» 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	exam	exam	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reveal	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 action	det
4	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 reveal	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 perform	det
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 perform	compound
8	perform	perform	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 order	case
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 reveal	mark
12	reveal	reveal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gold	det
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reveal	obj
15	within	within	ADP	_	18 rock	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rock	det
17	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 rock	amod
18	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reveal	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 reveal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reveal	past · do-support	exam	the gold				within the single rock	vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Topic

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 threw a stone at the rock

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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stone	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 rock	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rock	det
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	He	a stone		the rock			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at rock=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He struck the rock with his spear

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 struck	nsubj
2	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rock	det
4	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 spear	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 spear	nmod:poss
7	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	He	the rock				with his spear	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rock=Patient with spear=Instrument

Option 3

He cut the rock with a sword

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 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rock	det
4	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 sword	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sword	det
7	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	He	the rock				with a sword	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient with sword=Instrument

Option 4

He used a hammer

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 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hammer	det
4	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	He	a hammer					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Patient

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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