Exam question 4 · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lazy Girl and the Fish, part 41: th…

Which quality of the girl is most directly censured at the opening of the second tale?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: censure · To what, where: quality, opening

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 quality	det
2	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 censured	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 girl	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quality	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 censured	aux:pass
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 directly	advmod
8	directly	directly	ADV	_	9 censured	advmod
9	censured	censure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 opening	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 opening	det
12	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 censured	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 tale	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tale	det
15	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 tale	amod
16	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 opening	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 censured	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	censure	present · passive		which quality of the girl		the opening of the second tale		directly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

Her idleness and her constant disobedience towards her mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 idleness	nmod:poss
2	idleness	idleness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 disobedience	cc
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 disobedience	nmod:poss
5	constant	constant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 disobedience	amod
6	disobedience	disobedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 idleness	conj
7	towards	towards	ADP	_	9 mother	case
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	6 disobedience	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disobey		her = she					towards her mother	nom disobedience «act transitive»: poss=agent towards=obl

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Her idleness and disobedience

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 idleness	nmod:poss
2	idleness	idleness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 disobedience	cc
4	disobedience	disobedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 idleness	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Her rudeness and selfishness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 rudeness	nmod:poss
2	rudeness	rudeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 selfishness	cc
4	selfishness	selfishness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rudeness	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Her idleness, disobedience and her refusal to help at the family's house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 idleness	nmod:poss
2	idleness	idleness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 disobedience	punct
4	disobedience	disobedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 idleness	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 refusal	cc
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 refusal	nmod:poss
7	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 idleness	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 help	mark
9	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 refusal	acl
10	at	at	ADP	_	14 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 family	det
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 house	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 family	case
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 help	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	to-infinitive				the family's house			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	refuse		her = she						nom refusal «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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