Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Son…
Which road did the youngest prince take upon separating at the crossroads?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: road, youngest prince · What happens: do, take, separate · To what, where: crossroads
This is exam question 1 of lesson 254 «English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Sons, part 1: Jack rides off for golden apples and meets three strange old men» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 road | det |
| 2 | road | road | 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 prince | det |
| 5 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 prince | amod |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | nsubj |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 8 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 9 separating | mark |
| 9 | separating | separate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 take | advcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 crossroads | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 crossroads | det |
| 12 | crossroads | crossroad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 separating | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which road | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | present | the youngest prince | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | separate | gerund | the youngest prince not said here | the crossroads | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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
Left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
The north
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 north | det |
| 2 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The short road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 road | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 road | amod |
| 3 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The left road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 road | det |
| 2 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 road | amod |
| 3 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/254-pg14241-part21/e1/