Exam question 1 · Tales of Past Times, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part…

Which of the following accurately identifies the immediate physical consequence of the Princess's contact with the spindle?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess · What happens: follow, identify, contact · To what, where: immediate physical consequence

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1081 «Tales of Past Times, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 6: the Princess pricks her hand, the palace falls asleep, and the Prince finds her awake» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 following	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 following	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 identifies	advmod
6	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 consequence	det
8	immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 consequence	amod
9	physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 consequence	amod
10	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 contact	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Princess	det
13	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 contact	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Princess	case
15	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 consequence	nmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 spindle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 spindle	det
18	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 contact	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 following	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present		the immediate physical consequence of the Princess's contact with the spindle	accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent consequence=Theme
3	contact		the Princess		with the spindle	nom contact «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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

She was struck blind

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	3 struck	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 struck	aux:pass
3	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 struck	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past · passive		She				blind property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She pricked her finger and then lay in a sleep lasting a hundred years

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 pricked	nsubj
2	pricked	prick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 finger	nmod:poss
4	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pricked	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lay	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 lay	advmod
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pricked	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sleep	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sleep	det
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
11	lasting	last	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 sleep	acl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hundred	det
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lasting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	prick	past	She	her finger			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Patient
2	lie	past	She not said here		a sleep	then	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sleep=Location
3	last	gerund	a sleep not said here			year	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She fell into a swoon

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 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 swoon	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 swoon	det
5	swoon	swoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl

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

Option 4

She lost her memory of the palace and of her father and mother entirely

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 memory	nmod:poss
4	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 palace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 memory	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 father	cc
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 father	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 palace	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mother	cc
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 palace	conj
14	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	2 lost	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	She	her memory of the palace and her father and mother				entirely property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Eventuality

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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