Exam question 4 · Grimm, Lucky Luck, part 3: the prince seeks Lucky Luck to…

Which instruction did Lucky Luck's mother give the prince concerning his conduct?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: instruction, mother, prince · What happens: do, give, concern, conduct · To what, where: prince, conduct

This is exam question 4 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 instruction	det
2	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Lucky	Lucky	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Luck	compound
5	Luck	Luck	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mother	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Luck	case
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	nsubj
8	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 prince	acl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 conduct	nmod:poss
13	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	which instruction		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	present	Lucky Luck's mother	the prince	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme
3	concern	gerund	the prince not said here	instruction's conduct	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus conduct=Experiencer
4	conduct		instruction		nom conduct «act 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 · ✓ the right answer

To dig in silence and to speak only after the meal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 dig	mark
2	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 silence	case
4	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dig	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 speak	cc
6	to	to	PART	_	7 speak	mark
7	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 dig	conj
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 meal	advmod
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 meal	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meal	det
11	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	to-infinitive				silence			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive					after the meal		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

To dig in silence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 dig	mark
2	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 silence	case
4	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dig	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	to-infinitive				silence			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To eat in silence and to sleep at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 eat	mark
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 silence	case
4	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sleep	cc
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sleep	mark
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 dawn	case
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive				silence			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	to-infinitive					dawn		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

To pray before the work and to rest at noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 pray	mark
2	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 work	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 work	det
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pray	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rest	cc
7	to	to	PART	_	8 rest	mark
8	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 pray	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 noon	case
10	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	to-infinitive					before the work		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	rest	to-infinitive					noon		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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.

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