Exam question 3 · Perrault, Sleeping Beauty, part 15: the Ogress Queen order…

What was the intended fate of the household ordered by the Queen-mother?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: intend, be, order · To what, where: intended fate, household

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 fate	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fate	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fate	det
4	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fate	amod
5	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 household	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 household	det
8	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fate	nmod
9	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 household	acl
10	by	by	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	9 ordered	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	intend	participle			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the intended fate	of the household	tree rules
3	order	participle	the household not said here	by the Queen mother	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=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

Immersion in a tub of serpents, as the household had feared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Immersion	immersion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 tub	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tub	det
4	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Immersion	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 serpents	case
6	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tub	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 feared	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 feared	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 household	det
10	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feared	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 feared	aux
12	feared	fear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Immersion	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past · perfect · passive	Immersion in a tub of serpents not said here	the household					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 2

Immersion in a tub of serpents, though the cook and the servants pleaded for mercy

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Immersion	immersion	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pleaded	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 tub	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tub	det
4	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Immersion	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 serpents	case
6	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tub	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pleaded	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 pleaded	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cook	det
10	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pleaded	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 servants	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 servants	det
13	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cook	conj
14	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 mercy	case
16	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pleaded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plead speech: request	past	Immersion in a tub of serpents					for mercy	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Immersion in a tub of serpents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Immersion	immersion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 tub	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tub	det
4	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Immersion	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 serpents	case
6	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tub	nmod

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

Option 4

Drowning in a river of ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drowning	drown	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 river	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drowning	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 ice	case
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 river	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	gerund				a river of ice			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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