Exam question 4 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1…

To what location had the Swallow's companions departed before his arrival in the city?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: location · What happens: have, depart, arrive · To what, where: companions, city

This is exam question 4 of lesson 2031 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1: the Swallow meets the weeping statue and agrees to help» 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	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 had	obj
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Swallow	det
6	Swallow	Swallow	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 companions	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Swallow	case
8	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
9	departed	depart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 companions	acl
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 arrival	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 arrival	nmod:poss
12	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 departed	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 city	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 city	det
15	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 arrival	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	location	the Swallow's companions			tree rules
2	depart	participle		the Swallow's companions not said here		before location's arrival in the city	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	arrive		location		the city		nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place

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

The city of Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 city	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Rome	case
4	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 city	nmod

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

Option 2

Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The island of Crete

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 island	det
2	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Crete	case
4	Crete	Crete	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 island	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The land of Egypt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 land	det
2	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Egypt	case
4	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 land	nmod

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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