Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, The Prince and His Dog, part 41: the prince cl…

What was the ultimate resolution of the king's anger toward the young man?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: be, anger · To what, where: ultimate resolution

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1240 «Fairy Book, The Prince and His Dog, part 41: the prince climbs to the princess's window» 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 resolution	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 resolution	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 resolution	det
4	ultimate	ultimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 resolution	amod
5	resolution	resolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 anger	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 anger	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 resolution	nmod
11	toward	toward	ADP	_	14 man	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 anger	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 resolution	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the ultimate resolution				of the king's anger toward the young man	tree rules
2	anger		the king					toward the young man	nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent toward=obl

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

He forgave the youth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgave	nsubj
2	forgave	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forgive	past	He	the youth					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He sent him away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away	past	He	him = he				away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

He pardoned him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pardoned	nsubj
2	pardoned	pardon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pardoned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pardon	past	He	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He embraced him warmly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 embraced	nsubj
2	embraced	embrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 embraced	obj
4	warmly	warmly	ADV	_	2 embraced	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	embrace	past	He	him = he				warmly property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

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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