Exam question 1 · Orange Fairy Book, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 1: a wicked…

In the Japanese tale, what final condition does the man attain once he ceases to desire greater power?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man · What happens: attain, cease, desire · To what, where: Japanese tale, greater power

This is exam question 1 of lesson 693 «Orange Fairy Book, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 1: a wicked stepfather, a milk-brook, and a golden cage» 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 tale	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tale	det
3	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tale	amod
4	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 attain	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 does	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 does	obj
7	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 condition	amod
8	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 attain	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 attain	nsubj
12	attain	attain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	once	once	SCONJ	_	15 ceases	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ceases	nsubj
15	ceases	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 attain	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 desire	mark
17	desire	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ceases	xcomp
18	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 power	amod
19	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 desire	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 attain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	attain	present · do-support	the man		the Japanese tale	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	cease	present	man			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	desire	to-infinitive	man not said here	greater power		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot power=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 · ← Mova's choice

a return to the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 return	det
2	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 return	nmod

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

Option 2

wealth and fame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 fame	cc
3	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wealth	conj

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

Option 3

a desire for rule over the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 desire	det
2	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 rule	case
4	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 desire	nmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 sky	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sky	det
7	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 desire	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

contentment with his lowly station

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	contentment	contentment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 station	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 station	nmod:poss
4	lowly	lowly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 station	amod
5	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 contentment	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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