Exam question 4 · Tales of Past Times, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part…

Which of the following correctly identifies the state in which the Princess was found upon the Prince's arrival?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: follow, identify, find, arrive · To what, where: state, Princess

This is exam question 4 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	6 identifies	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 identifies	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 identifies	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 identifies	csubj
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	4 following	advmod
6	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 state	det
8	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 found	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 found	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 found	aux:pass
14	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 state	acl:relcl
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 arrival	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Prince	det
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 arrival	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Prince	case
19	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 identifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				correctly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present		the state			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent state=Theme
3	find	past · passive		the Princess	the state	upon the Prince's arrival	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	arrive		the Prince				nom arrival «act 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 · ✓ the right answer

She was awake and speaking to him

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 awake	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 awake	cop
3	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 speaking	cc
5	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 awake	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 speaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					awake property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	gerund	She not said here		him = he				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent

Option 2

She was asleep

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 asleep	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	cop
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					asleep property	tree rules

Option 3

She was pale and lying 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	3 pale	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pale	cop
3	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lying	cc
5	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 pale	conj
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 lying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					pale property	tree rules
2	lie	gerund	She not said here				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She was sitting up in her bed

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 sitting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sitting	aux
3	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 sitting	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 bed	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bed	nmod:poss
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit up	past · progressive	She			her bed			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location

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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