Exam question 2 · Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel…

State the reason the prince gave for choosing to marry the girl despite her disability.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reason · What happens: give, choose, marry · To what, where: State, girl

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1309 «Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel brother cuts off his sister's hand, and a prince finds her crying in a tree» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obl:unmarked
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 choosing	mark
8	choosing	choose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 gave	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 marry	mark
10	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 choosing	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marry	obj
13	despite	despite	ADP	_	15 disability	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 disability	nmod:poss
15	disability	disability	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marry	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	the reason	State		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	choose	gerund	the reason not said here			tree rules
3	marry	to-infinitive	the reason not said here	the girl	despite reason's disability	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient

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 right answer

He declared that no other woman pleased him as well, even with one hand

The tree, 14 words

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 declared	nsubj
2	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 pleased	mark
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 woman	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pleased	nsubj
7	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 declared	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pleased	nsubj
9	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	2 declared	advmod
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 as	fixed
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hand	punct
12	even	even	ADV	_	15 hand	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 hand	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hand	nummod
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 declared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	He					with one hand	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He said that she was the only woman who pleased him, despite one hand

The tree, 14 words

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 woman	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 woman	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 woman	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 pleased	nsubj
10	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pleased	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hand	punct
13	despite	despite	ADP	_	15 hand	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hand	nummod
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	she	the only woman					tree rules

Option 3

He claimed no other woman was as pleasing to him, though she had one hand

The tree, 15 words

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 claimed	nsubj
2	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 woman	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pleasing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pleasing	aux
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 pleasing	mark
8	pleasing	please	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 claimed	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pleasing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 had	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 claimed	conj
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 hand	nummod
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	claim speech: other	past	He			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	please	past · progressive	no other woman		him = he	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	have	past	woman	one hand		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 4

He told his parents that no other woman in the kingdom pleased him as well, even with one hand, and he would wed no one else

The tree, 26 words

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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 parents	nmod:poss
4	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 pleased	mark
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 woman	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pleased	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 kingdom	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kingdom	det
11	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 woman	nmod
12	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	ccomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pleased	nsubj
14	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	12 pleased	advmod
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 as	fixed
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hand	punct
17	even	even	ADV	_	20 hand	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 hand	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 hand	nummod
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pleased	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wed	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wed	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 wed	aux
25	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	conj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wed	obj
28	else	else	ADV	_	27 one	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	He		his parents				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient
2	wed	would	he	no one					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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