Exam question 3 · Czech and Slovak Tales, Kojata and Milan, part 45: Milan m…
What condition did the Magician set for Prince Milan's continued survival?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition, Prince Milan · What happens: do, continue, survive · To what, where: Magician set
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1908 «Czech and Slovak Tales, Kojata and Milan, part 45: Milan meets a magician's daughter and is set three tasks underground» 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 condition | det |
| 2 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 set | det |
| 5 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 set | compound |
| 6 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 survival | case |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Milan | compound |
| 9 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 survival | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Milan | case |
| 11 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 survival | amod |
| 12 | survival | survival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | what condition | the Magician set | for Prince Milan's continued survival | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | continue | participle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | survive | Prince Milan | nom survival «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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
Finishing a golden tower and a silver bridge by dawn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finishing | finish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tower | det |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tower | amod |
| 4 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Finishing | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bridge | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bridge | det |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bridge | compound |
| 8 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tower | conj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 dawn | case |
| 10 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Finishing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | gerund | a golden tower and a silver bridge | dawn | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality tower=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Completion of a palace, garden and waterfalls by morning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Completion | completion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 palace | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 palace | det |
| 4 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Completion | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 garden | punct |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Completion | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 waterfalls | cc |
| 8 | waterfalls | waterfall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Completion | conj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 morning | case |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Completion | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | morning | a palace | nom completion «act transitive»: of=patient by=agent |
Option 3
Completion of a golden palace, garden and waterfalls by the next morning without rest
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Completion | completion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 palace | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 palace | amod |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Completion | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 garden | punct |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 palace | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 waterfalls | cc |
| 9 | waterfalls | waterfall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 palace | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 morning | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 morning | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 morning | amod |
| 13 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Completion | nmod |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 rest | case |
| 15 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Completion | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | the next morning | a golden palace and garden and waterfalls | without rest | nom completion «act transitive»: of=patient by=agent without=obl |
Option 4
Completion of a palace, garden, waterfalls and a great stone wall by morning
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Completion | completion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 palace | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 palace | det |
| 4 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Completion | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 garden | punct |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 palace | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 waterfalls | punct |
| 8 | waterfalls | waterfall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Completion | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wall | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wall | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wall | amod |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wall | compound |
| 13 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Completion | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 morning | case |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Completion | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | morning | a palace and garden | nom completion «act transitive»: of=patient by=agent |
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