Exam question 1 · Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king lo…

Which object was lost in the river, causing the king's distress?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: king · What happens: lose, cause, distress · To what, where: object, river, distress

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1196 «Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king loses his slipper and a youth offers a cure» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux:pass
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 causing	punct
9	causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lost	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 distress	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 king	case
13	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 causing	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		which object	the river	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	cause	gerund		the king's distress		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition distress=Patient
3	distress		the king			nom distress «feeling 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

a small white shoe belonging to the princess that had slipped off in the water

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shoe	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shoe	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shoe	amod
4	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 shoe	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 princess	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princess	det
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 belonging	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 slipped	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 slipped	aux
11	slipped	slip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 princess	acl:relcl
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 slipped	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 water	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 water	det
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	gerund	a small white shoe not said here					to the princess	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	slip off	past · perfect	the princess					in the water	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in water=Attribute

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

the white slipper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 slipper	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 slipper	amod
3	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the king's white slipper, which had fallen off his foot near the barge's nail

The tree, 16 words

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	5 slipper	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 slipper	amod
5	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fallen	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 fallen	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fallen	aux
9	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 slipper	acl:relcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	12 foot	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 foot	nmod:poss
12	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fallen	obl
13	near	near	ADP	_	17 nail	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 barge	det
15	barge	barge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nail	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 barge	case
17	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fallen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past · perfect	the king's white slipper	king's foot		the barge's nail			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient foot=Extent

Option 4

the golden ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ring	amod
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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