Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 2: the soldie…

State the reason the king gives for confining the princess within the copper castle.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: State · What happens: give, confine · To what, where: princess

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1002 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 2: the soldier takes gold from the dogs' chests, spends it, and calls the princess up with the tinder-box» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	nsubj:outer
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	nsubj
6	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 confining	mark
8	confining	confine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 gives	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 confining	obj
11	within	within	ADP	_	14 castle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 castle	det
13	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 castle	compound
14	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 confining	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	State						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	confine	gerund	State not said here	the princess				within the copper castle	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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

the princess is too proud to marry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proud	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 proud	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 proud	advmod
5	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 marry	mark
7	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 proud	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the princess					proud property	tree rules
2	marry	to-infinitive	the princess not said here						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a prophecy that she will marry a soldier who lives under the roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 prophecy	det
2	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 marry	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 marry	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 marry	aux
6	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 prophecy	acl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 soldier	det
8	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 marry	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lives	nsubj
10	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 soldier	acl:relcl
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 roof	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 roof	det
13	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	future	she	a soldier					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient
2	live	present	a soldier			the roof			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under roof=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a prophecy of marriage to a common soldier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 prophecy	det
2	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 marriage	case
4	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prophecy	nmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 soldier	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 soldier	det
7	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 soldier	amod
8	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prophecy	nmod

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

Option 4

a warning about the princess's health

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 warning	det
2	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	7 health	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 health	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 princess	case
7	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warning	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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