Exam question 2 · Japanese Fairy Tales, Princess Moonlight, part 18: the sui…

What did the Princess declare would occur should she be compelled to attend the Palace?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess declare · What happens: occur, compel, attend · To what, where: declare, Palace

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1358 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Princess Moonlight, part 18: the suitors fail, the Emperor comes, the Princess tells her secret» 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	7 occur	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 occur	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 declare	det
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 declare	compound
5	declare	declare	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 occur	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 occur	aux
7	occur	occur	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 compelled	parataxis
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 compelled	aux
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 compelled	nsubj:pass
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 compelled	aux:pass
11	compelled	compel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 attend	mark
13	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 compelled	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Palace	det
15	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 attend	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 compelled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	occur	would · past · do-support	the Princess declare			tree rules
2	compel	should · passive		declare		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
3	attend	to-infinitive			the Palace	vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Goal

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

She would dissolve into a shadow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dissolve	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 dissolve	aux
3	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 shadow	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shadow	det
6	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dissolve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	would	She					into a shadow result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into shadow=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She would die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 die	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 die	aux
3	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would	She						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

She would fade away into darkness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fade	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fade	aux
3	fade	fade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 fade	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 darkness	case
6	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fade	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade away	would	She			darkness		away property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

She would flee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flee	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 flee	aux
3	flee	flee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	would	She						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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