Exam question 2 · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin: he wins Sabella's heart…
By what means did the Prince endure the long march towards the Ice Mountain?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: mean, endure · To what, where: long march · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1893 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin: he wins Sabella's heart from the Ice Palace» 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 means | mark |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 endure | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 endure | nsubj |
| 7 | endure | endure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 march | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 march | amod |
| 10 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 endure | obj |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 14 Mountain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Mountain | det |
| 13 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Mountain | compound |
| 14 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 endure | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | endure | past · do-support | the Prince | the long march | towards the Ice Mountain | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme march=Circumstance |
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
Through fire and great luck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 2 fire | case |
| 2 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 luck | cc |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 luck | amod |
| 5 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fire | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
By patience and perseverance through every hardship
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 patience | case |
| 2 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 perseverance | cc |
| 4 | perseverance | perseverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 patience | conj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 hardship | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 hardship | det |
| 7 | hardship | hardship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 patience | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
By patience and perseverance, and by the spaniels' help
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 patience | case |
| 2 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 perseverance | cc |
| 4 | perseverance | perseverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 patience | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 patience | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 help | cc |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 help | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spaniels | det |
| 9 | spaniels | spaniel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 help | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 spaniels | case |
| 11 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 patience | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | the spaniels | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
By patience and perseverance
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 patience | case |
| 2 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 perseverance | cc |
| 4 | perseverance | perseverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 patience | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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