Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, The Frog and the Lion Fairy, part 1: the siste…

Which event immediately preceded the queen's loss of control over her chariot?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: event · What happens: proceed · To what, where: loss

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1178 «Fairy Book, The Frog and the Lion Fairy, part 1: the sisters free their husbands, and the queen's chariot crashes» 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 event	det
2	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 preceded	nsubj
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	4 preceded	advmod
4	preceded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loss	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 queen	case
8	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 preceded	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 control	case
10	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loss	nmod
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 chariot	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 chariot	nmod:poss
13	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 control	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 preceded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proceed	past	which event	the queen's loss of control over event's chariot				immediately property	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 reins snapping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 reins	det
2	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 snapping	nsubj
3	snapping	snap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	gerund	the reins						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The appearance of a wild boar causing the hunt to gallop away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 appearance	det
2	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 causing	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 boar	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boar	det
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boar	amod
6	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 appearance	nmod
7	causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hunt	det
9	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 causing	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 gallop	mark
11	gallop	gallop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 causing	xcomp
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 gallop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	gerund	the appearance of a wild boar	the hunt					tree rules
2	gallop away	to-infinitive	the hunt not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A loud noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 noise	det
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 noise	amod
3	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The queen spotting a stag and her servants laughing at her cries for help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	spotting	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 queen	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stag	det
5	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spotting	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 servants	cc
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 servants	nmod:poss
8	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 queen	conj
9	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 queen	acl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 cries	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cries	nmod:poss
12	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 laughing	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 help	case
14	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laughing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spot	gerund	the queen and her servants not said here	a stag			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stag=Destination
2	laugh	gerund	the queen and her servants not said here		her cries	for help	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry		her = she				nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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