Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundre…

After how many years did the prince arrive at the palace?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: prince · What happens: do, arrive · To what, where: palace

This is exam question 2 of lesson 731 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundred years' sleep, and a prince's kiss» 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 years	case
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 many	advmod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	obl
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arrive	nsubj
8	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arrive	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past					year		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	arrive	present	the prince			the palace			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

a hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hundred	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

a hundred years and more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hundred	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 more	cc
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 years	conj

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

Option 3

many long years after the spell began

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 began	nsubj
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 spell	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spell	det
6	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 years	nmod
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	many long years after the spell						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

fifty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	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.

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