Exam question 2 · fairy book, Prince Milan and Hyacinthia, part 46: Milan wi…

At the point of the church, what does the Magician's authority cease to do in relation to the fugitives?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, point · To what, where: authority cease, point, relation, church

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1909 «fairy book, Prince Milan and Hyacinthia, part 46: Milan wins a second test and the pair flee the Magician» 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 point	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 point	det
3	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 church	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 church	det
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 point	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 does	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 does	nsubj
9	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Magician	det
11	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 cease	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Magician	case
13	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cease	compound
14	cease	cease	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cease	acl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 relation	case
18	relation	relation	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 fugitives	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fugitives	det
21	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 do	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	present	the Magician's authority cease	the point of the church		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cease=Eventuality
2	do	to-infinitive	the Magician's authority cease not said here	relation	to the fugitives	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	point		the church			nom point «cognition transitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Grant any further pursuit to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grant	grant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pursuit	nsubj
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 pursuit	det
3	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pursuit	amod
4	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pursuit	nmod

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

Option 2

Allow the chase to go on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Allow	allow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chase	det
3	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Allow	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Allow	xcomp
6	on	on	ADV	_	5 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	imperative	you not said here	the chase					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer chase=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	go on not said to happen	to-infinitive	the chase not said here						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Extend any further pursuit or search of the fugitive pair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Extend	extend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 pursuit	det
3	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pursuit	amod
4	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Extend	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 search	cc
6	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pursuit	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 pair	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pair	det
9	fugitive	fugitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pair	amod
10	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 search	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	extend	imperative	you not said here	any further pursuit or search of the fugitive pair					vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent pursuit=Theme
2	search			the fugitive pair					nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Extend any further pursuit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Extend	extend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 pursuit	det
3	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pursuit	amod
4	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Extend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	extend	imperative	you not said here	any further pursuit					vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent pursuit=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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