Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of…

By what means did the husband signal danger to the princess before the ogre's second visit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ogre · What happens: mean, do, visit · To what, where: signal danger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1157 «Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of ice is raised, and the ogre tricks the princess» 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 danger	det
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 signal	compound
7	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 danger	compound
8	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 princess	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
12	before	before	ADP	_	17 visit	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ogre	det
14	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 visit	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 ogre	case
16	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 visit	amod
17	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past		the signal danger	before the ogre's second visit	to the princess	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent danger=Eventuality
3	visit		the ogre				nom visit «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he begged her to take heed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begged	advcl
6	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	he		her = she				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	take	to-infinitive	he not said here	heed					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme

Option 2

he gave her a silver ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ring	det
5	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ring	amod
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	a silver ring	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient ring=Theme

Option 3

he wrote her a note

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 note	det
5	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	he	a note	her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient note=Topic

Option 4

he begged her to take heed of the ogre's words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begged	advcl
6	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 words	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ogre	det
9	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 words	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 ogre	case
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heed	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	he		her = she	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	take	to-infinitive	he not said here	heed of the ogre's words		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme
3	heed			the ogre's words		nom heed «cognition transitive»: of=patient
4	word		the ogre			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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