Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9: the Dwarf claims Be…

In what condition did the Princess find herself upon her second awakening?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess · What happens: find, awaken · To what, where: Princess, condition

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1422 «Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9: the Dwarf claims Bellissima, and she agrees to marry the Gold King» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 condition	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 condition	det
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 find	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	nsubj
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 find	obj
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 awakening	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 awakening	nmod:poss
11	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 awakening	amod
12	awakening	awakening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	the Princess	Princess		what condition		upon Princess's second awakening	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic
2	awaken		Princess						nom awakening «act intransitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

dressed finely with a loose golden ring on her hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	finely	finely	ADV	_	1 dressed	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	7 ring	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ring	det
5	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ring	amod
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ring	amod
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dressed	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 hand	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hand	nmod:poss
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ring	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	participle						with a loose golden ring on her hand; finely property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

dressed in plain white with a ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 white	case
3	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 white	amod
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 dressed	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 ring	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ring	det
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dressed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	participle				plain white		with a ring	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

dressed finely with a tight red-hair ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	finely	finely	ADV	_	1 dressed	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	9 ring	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ring	det
5	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ring	amod
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hair	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 red	punct
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ring	compound
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dressed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	participle						with a tight hair ring; finely property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

dressed finely in a lace cap with a tight red-hair ring and a veil

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	finely	finely	ADV	_	1 dressed	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 cap	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cap	det
5	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cap	compound
6	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dressed	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	13 ring	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ring	det
9	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ring	amod
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hair	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 red	punct
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ring	compound
13	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dressed	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 veil	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 veil	det
16	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ring	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	participle				a lace cap		with a tight hair ring and a veil; finely property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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