Exam question 3 · Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla, part 10: a coachman, footmen…

What did the gentleman discover upon fitting the slipper?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gentleman · What happens: discover, fit · To what, where: slipper

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1085 «Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla, part 10: a coachman, footmen and a slipper that fits» 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	5 discover	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 discover	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gentleman	det
4	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 discover	nsubj
5	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	7 fitting	mark
7	fitting	fit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 discover	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 slipper	det
9	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fitting	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 discover	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discover	past · do-support	the gentleman						vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	fit	gerund	the gentleman not said here	the slipper					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slipper=Patient

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

it went on easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	easily	easily	ADV	_	2 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	it					easily property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it went on easily, as if made of wax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	easily	easily	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 made	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 made	mark
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 went	parataxis
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 wax	case
10	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	it					easily property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make a condition, not said to happen	participle						of wax	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

it fitted, as if made of glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fitted	nsubj
2	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 made	mark
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 made	mark
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fitted	parataxis
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 glass	case
8	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	past	it						vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	make a condition, not said to happen	participle						of glass	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4

it slid on, as if made of wax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slid	nsubj
2	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 slid	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 made	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 made	mark
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 slid	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 wax	case
9	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	past	it						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make a condition, not said to happen	participle						of wax	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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