Exam question 4 · Perrault, Riquet with the Tuft: the princess keeps her wor…

How does the narrator explain the transformation of Riquet with the Tuft into a handsome Prince?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrator · What happens: explain, transform · To what, where: transformation, Riquet

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1087 «Perrault, Riquet with the Tuft: the princess keeps her word and marries the prince» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 explain	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 explain	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrator	det
4	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 explain	nsubj
5	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 transformation	det
7	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 explain	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Riquet	case
9	Riquet	riquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 transformation	nmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 Tuft	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Tuft	det
12	Tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 explain	obl
13	into	into	ADP	_	16 Prince	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 Prince	det
15	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Prince	amod
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 explain	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 explain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present · do-support	the narrator	the transformation of Riquet				with the Tuft; into a handsome Prince	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent transformation=Topic
2	transform			Riquet					nom transformation «event transitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice

Some attribute it to love alone, and others to fairy magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 attribute	det
2	attribute	attribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 attribute	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 love	mark
5	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 attribute	acl
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 love	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 others	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 others	cc
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 attribute	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 magic	case
11	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 magic	amod
12	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 others	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	to-infinitive						alone property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Some attribute it to love alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 attribute	det
2	attribute	attribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 attribute	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 love	mark
5	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 attribute	acl
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 love	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	to-infinitive						alone property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Some believe it was a dream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 believe	nsubj
2	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dream	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dream	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dream	det
6	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 believe	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	present	Some						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	it	a dream					tree rules

Option 4

Many credit the fairy's gift

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 credit	amod
2	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fairy	det
4	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gift	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 fairy	case
6	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 credit	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gift		the fairy						nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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