Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Giant
Where did the prince and his wife reside following their marriage?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: be, reside, follow, marry · To what, where: marriage
This is exam question 4 of lesson 685 «Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Giant» 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reside | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wife | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prince | conj |
| 8 | reside | reside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | parataxis |
| 9 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 reside | xcomp |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 11 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 following | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | where property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reside | present | the prince and his wife | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | the prince and his wife not said here | prince's marriage | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme | ||||
| 4 | marry | prince | nom marriage «state 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 · ← Mova's choice
Deep in the valley, away from home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deep | deep | ADV | _ | 6 away | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 valley | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 valley | det |
| 4 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Deep | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Deep | punct |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 away | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
In a small cottage in the forest, far away from the throne and court
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 cottage | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cottage | det |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cottage | amod |
| 4 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cottage | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 away | punct |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 away | advmod |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 cottage | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 throne | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 throne | det |
| 13 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 away | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 court | cc |
| 15 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 throne | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
In the forest, away from the throne and all the palace duties and noise
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 forest | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 forest | det |
| 3 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 away | punct |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 forest | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 throne | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 throne | det |
| 8 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 away | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 duties | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 duties | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 duties | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 duties | compound |
| 13 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 forest | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 noise | cc |
| 15 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 duties | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
In the forest, away from the throne
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 forest | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 forest | det |
| 3 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 away | punct |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 forest | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 throne | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 throne | det |
| 8 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 away | obl |
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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