Exam question 1 · Perrault, Sleeping Beauty, part 15: the Ogress Queen order…

On what grounds did the Prince conceal his marriage from the Queen-mother?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: conceal, marry · To what, where: marriage

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1428 «Perrault, Sleeping Beauty, part 15: the Ogress Queen orders a tub of serpents for the family» 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 conceal	obl
3	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 conceal	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 conceal	nsubj
7	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 marriage	nmod:poss
9	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conceal	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	14 mother	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mother	det
12	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 mother	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Queen	punct
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conceal	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 conceal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal	past · do-support	the Prince	Prince's marriage				from the Queen mother	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent marriage=Patient from mother=Beneficiary
2	marry		Prince						nom marriage «state transitive»: 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

Fear of his father's rule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 rule	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rule	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 father	case
6	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fear	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear			his father's rule					nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient
2	rule		his father						nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fear of her Ogreish nature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 nature	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nature	nmod:poss
4	Ogreish	ogreish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nature	amod
5	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fear	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear			her Ogreish nature					nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Fear of her Ogreish nature, and of what the court would say about the match

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 nature	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nature	nmod:poss
4	Ogreish	ogreish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nature	amod
5	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fear	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 what	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 say	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 court	det
11	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 say	aux
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fear	acl:relcl
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 match	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 match	det
16	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	the court	Fear of her Ogreish nature				about the match	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	fear			her Ogreish nature					nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Fear of her Ogreish nature, and of the court's gossip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 nature	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nature	nmod:poss
4	Ogreish	ogreish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nature	amod
5	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fear	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gossip	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gossip	cc
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 gossip	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 court	det
10	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gossip	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 court	case
12	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fear	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear			her Ogreish nature					nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient
2	gossip		the court						nom gossip «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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