Exam question 2 · Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of…

Which obstacle prevented the girl from waking the Prince on the first night?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: obstacle · What happens: prevent, wake · To what, where: girl, Prince

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1420 «Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 7: the North Wind carries her to the castle, and the shirt goes wrong» 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 obstacle	det
2	obstacle	obstacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prevented	nsubj
3	prevented	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prevented	obj
6	from	from	SCONJ	_	7 waking	mark
7	waking	wake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 prevented	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prince	det
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 waking	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 night	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 night	det
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 night	amod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waking	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 prevented	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent	past	which obstacle	the girl					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer girl=Theme
2	wake	gerund	which obstacle not said here	the Prince			night		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent prince=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

A sleeping spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The troll's sleeping potion made earlier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 troll	det
2	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 potion	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 troll	case
4	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 potion	amod
5	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	the troll's sleeping potion					early property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The sleeping-drink administered by the Princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drink	det
2	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drink	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 sleeping	punct
4	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	administered	administer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 drink	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 Princess	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Princess	det
8	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 administered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	administer	participle		the sleeping drink not said here				by the Princess	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The wine that the Princess poured out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wine	det
2	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poured	nsubj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 poured	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 poured	nsubj
6	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 poured	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour out	past	the wine						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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