Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, The Frog and the Lion Fairy, part 1: the siste…

What was the principal cause of the king's wish to send his wife to a fortified place?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: king · What happens: be, send, fortify, wish · To what, where: principal cause, wife, fortified place

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 cause	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cause	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cause	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cause	amod
5	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 wish	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wish	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cause	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 send	mark
12	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cause	acl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 send	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 place	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 place	det
17	fortified	fortify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 place	amod
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 send	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal cause		of the king's wish	tree rules
2	send	to-infinitive		king's wife	a fortified place		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wife=Theme to place=Destination
3	fortify	participle					vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme
4	wish		the king				nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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

A bad harvest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The king's defeat in battle and the approaching siege of his capital

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 defeat	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	defeat	defeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 battle	case
6	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 defeat	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 siege	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 siege	det
9	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 siege	amod
10	siege	siege	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 battle	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 capital	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 capital	nmod:poss
13	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 siege	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	approach	gerund							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	defeat		the king			battle and the approaching siege of king's capital			nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=agent in=place

Option 3

The queen's constant complaints about the cold and the damp of the castle walls

The tree, 15 words

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	5 complaints	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 queen	case
4	constant	constant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 complaints	amod
5	complaints	complaint	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 cold	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cold	det
8	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 complaints	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 damp	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 damp	det
11	damp	damp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cold	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 walls	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 walls	det
14	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 walls	compound
15	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 damp	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	complain		the queen					about the cold and the damp of the castle walls	nom complaint «state intransitive»: poss=agent about=obl

Option 4

The war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 war	det
2	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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