Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest princ…
Upon which side of the golden road did the eldest brother ride when he approached the gate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, approach · To what, where: eldest brother ride, gate
This is exam question 1 of lesson 775 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest prince is cheated, then wins his bride» 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 side | det |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 did | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 road | amod |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 side | nmod |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ride | det |
| 10 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 ride | amod |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ride | compound |
| 12 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 did | obj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 approached | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 approached | nsubj |
| 15 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ride | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gate | det |
| 17 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 approached | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the eldest brother ride | upon which side of the golden road | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ride=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | approach | past | he | the gate | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=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 left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 left | det |
| 2 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The right-hand side
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 side | det |
| 2 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 right | punct |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 side | compound |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The north-facing side
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 side | det |
| 2 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 facing | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 north | punct |
| 4 | facing | face | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 side | amod |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | face | gerund | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
The left-hand side
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 side | det |
| 2 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 side | compound |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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