Exam question 4 · Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla; or, The Little Glass Slipper…
What was the purpose of the Fairy's intervention in the proceedings concerning Cinderilla's attendance?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: purpose, proceedings, intervention, Fairy, Cinderilla · What happens: be, concern, purpose, intervene, attend · To what, where: attendance, proceedings
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1084 «Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla; or, The Little Glass Slipper, part 9: Puss eats the Ogre and wins a castle, then Cinderilla is left behind» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 purpose | det |
| 4 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 intervention | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fairy | det |
| 7 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 intervention | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Fairy | case |
| 9 | intervention | intervention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 purpose | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 proceedings | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 proceedings | det |
| 12 | proceedings | proceedings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 intervention | nmod |
| 13 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 proceedings | acl |
| 14 | Cinderilla | Cinderilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 attendance | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Cinderilla | case |
| 16 | attendance | attendance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 concerning | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the purpose of the Fairy's intervention in the proceedings | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | concern | gerund | the proceedings not said here | Cinderilla's attendance | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus attendance=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | purpose | the Fairy's intervention in the proceedings | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | intervene | the Fairy | the proceedings | nom intervention «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place | |||||
| 5 | attend | Cinderilla | nom attendance «act transitive»: 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 · ✓ the right answer
To enable her to attend the ball
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 enable | mark |
| 2 | enable | enable | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 enable | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 attend | mark |
| 5 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 enable | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ball | det |
| 7 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attend | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enable | to-infinitive | her = she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | attend | to-infinitive | her = she not said here | the ball | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ball=Goal |
Option 2
To get her a fine golden coach
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 get | mark |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 get | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 coach | det |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 coach | amod |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 coach | amod |
| 7 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | to-infinitive | a fine golden coach | her = she | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary coach=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
To make her into a Princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 make | mark |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 make | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 Princess | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 6 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | her = she | into a Princess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent she=Material into princess=Product |
Option 4
To enable her to attend the ball and marry the Prince at last
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 enable | mark |
| 2 | enable | enable | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 enable | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 attend | mark |
| 5 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 enable | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ball | det |
| 7 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attend | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 marry | cc |
| 9 | marry | marry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 enable | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 marry | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 marry | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enable | to-infinitive | her = she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | attend | to-infinitive | her = she not said here | the ball | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ball=Goal | ||||
| 3 | marry | infinitive | the Prince | last | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient |
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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