Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220…

By what manner did the princess respond when the answer was declared correct?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: manner · What happens: do, declare · To what, where: princess respond, answer

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1009 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220: John guesses "shoe" and wins the first riddle» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 respond	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 respond	compound
7	respond	respond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 declared	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 answer	det
10	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 declared	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 declared	aux:pass
12	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	advcl
13	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 declared	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	manner	the princess respond					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respond=Eventuality
2	declare speech: other	past · passive		the answer				correct property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

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

She became as red as a rose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 red	advmod
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 became	xcomp
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 rose	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rose	det
7	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 red	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	She					red property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

She grew very still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 still	advmod
4	still	still	ADV	_	2 grew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	She				still		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She became as pale as a ghost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 pale	advmod
4	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 became	xcomp
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 ghost	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ghost	det
7	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pale	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	She					pale property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

She blushed a deep crimson shade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blushed	nsubj
2	blushed	blush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shade	det
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shade	amod
5	crimson	crimson	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shade	compound
6	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blushed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blush	past	She	a deep crimson shade					tree rules

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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