Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest princ…
At which point did the old king first express remorse for his son's supposed death?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: son · What happens: do, suppose, die · To what, where: old king, point
This is exam question 4 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 point | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 point | det |
| 3 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 king | amod |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 express | advmod |
| 9 | express | express | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 remorse | amod |
| 10 | remorse | remorse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 death | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 death | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 son | case |
| 15 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 death | amod |
| 16 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the old king and express remorse | which point | for his son's supposed death | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | suppose | participle | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | die | his son | nom death «event intransitive»: 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
At the wedding
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 wedding | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wedding | det |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
When the three embassies arrived bearing gifts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 arrived | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 embassies | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 embassies | nummod |
| 4 | embassies | embassy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 gifts | amod |
| 7 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 arrived | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the three embassies | bearing gifts | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | gerund | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
After the feast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 feast | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 feast | det |
| 3 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
When the messengers brought the news
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 brought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 messengers | det |
| 3 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 news | det |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the messengers | the news | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent news=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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