Exam question 3 · Grimm, Lucky Luck, part 3: the prince seeks Lucky Luck to…

Which obstacle did the prince encounter before reaching Lucky Luck's dwelling?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: obstacle · What happens: do, reach · To what, where: prince encounter, dwelling

This is exam question 3 of lesson 663 «Grimm, Lucky Luck, part 3: the prince seeks Lucky Luck to save his servant» 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 obstacle	det
2	obstacle	obstacle	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 encounter	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 encounter	compound
6	encounter	encounter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 reaching	mark
8	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 did	advcl
9	Lucky	Lucky	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Luck	compound
10	Luck	Luck	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 dwelling	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Luck	case
12	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reaching	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which obstacle	the prince encounter					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent encounter=Eventuality
2	reach	gerund	which obstacle not said here	Lucky Luck's dwelling					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent dwelling=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

A wood traversed over three days and a stream that parted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wood	det
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	traversed	traverse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wood	acl
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 days	nummod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 traversed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stream	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stream	det
9	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wood	conj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 parted	nsubj
11	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wood	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	traverse	participle		a wood and a stream not said here			day		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	part	past	a wood and a stream						vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

A bridge built over a gorge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bridge	det
2	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bridge	acl
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 gorge	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gorge	det
6	gorge	gorge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	participle		a bridge not said here		a gorge			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A wood and a stream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wood	det
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stream	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stream	det
5	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wood	conj

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

Option 4

A river crossed at dawn and a hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 river	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crossed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hill	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hill	det
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dawn	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	participle		a river not said here			dawn		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/663-pg2435-part3/e3/