Exam question 3 · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lazy Girl and the Fish, part 41: th…

What was the outcome for Cerisette and her mother at the close of the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: outcome

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1175 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lazy Girl and the Fish, part 41: the prince wins back Desiree, and the idle girl turns into a fish under the sea» 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	4 outcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 outcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 outcome	det
4	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 Cerisette	case
6	Cerisette	Cerisette	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 outcome	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mother	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outcome	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 close	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 close	det
12	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mother	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 narrative	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 narrative	det
15	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 close	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the outcome and Cerisette's mother at the close of the narrative				for Cerisette	tree rules

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

They were banished to a small island

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 banished	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 banished	aux:pass
3	banished	banish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 island	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 island	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 island	amod
7	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 banished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	banish	past · passive		They		a small island			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to island=Destination

Option 2

They were exiled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 exiled	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 exiled	aux:pass
3	exiled	exile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exile	past · passive		They					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They were sent to a nearby kingdom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 kingdom	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kingdom	det
6	nearby	nearby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kingdom	amod
7	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		They		a nearby kingdom			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to kingdom=Destination

Option 4

They were banished forever to a small island in the middle of the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 banished	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 banished	aux:pass
3	banished	banish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	forever	forever	ADV	_	3 banished	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 island	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 island	det
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 island	amod
8	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 banished	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 middle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 middle	det
11	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 island	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	banish	past · passive		They		a small island in the middle of the sea		forever property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to island=Destination

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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