Exam question 4 · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wed…
Why did the Fairy become hostile toward the royal wedding party?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fairy · What happens: do, become
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1423 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wedding is spoiled and Bellissima is stolen» 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fairy | det |
| 4 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 become | nsubj |
| 5 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 6 | hostile | hostile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 become | xcomp |
| 7 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 11 party | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 party | det |
| 9 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 party | amod |
| 10 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 party | compound |
| 11 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hostile | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | become | present | the Fairy | hostile property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice
Because the King broke his promise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 broke | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 promise | nmod:poss |
| 6 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | the King | King's promise | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient | ||||
| 2 | promise | King | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
Because the Princess had broken her promise to the Yellow Dwarf and to the Fairy
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 broken | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 broken | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 broken | aux |
| 5 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 promise | nmod:poss |
| 7 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broken | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Dwarf | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Dwarf | det |
| 10 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Dwarf | amod |
| 11 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 broken | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Fairy | cc |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Fairy | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fairy | det |
| 15 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Dwarf | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · perfect | the Princess | Princess's promise | to the Yellow Dwarf and the Fairy result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent promise=Patient to dwarf=Result | |||
| 2 | promise | Princess | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Because the Princess broke her promise to the Yellow Dwarf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 broke | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 promise | nmod:poss |
| 6 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Dwarf | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Dwarf | det |
| 9 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Dwarf | amod |
| 10 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | the Princess | Princess's promise | to the Yellow Dwarf result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent promise=Patient to dwarf=Result | |||
| 2 | promise | Princess | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
Because the King refused her gift and insulted her at court
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 refused | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 refused | nsubj |
| 4 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 gift | nmod:poss |
| 6 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 refused | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 insulted | cc |
| 8 | insulted | insult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 refused | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 insulted | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 court | case |
| 11 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 insulted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | the King | her gift | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 2 | insult | past | the King not said here | her = she | court | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | gift | her = she | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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