Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, Cinderella: the ball, the lost slipper, the s…

What conduct did Cinderella display towards her sisters upon their repentance?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cinderella, sisters · What happens: display, repent

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1430 «Fairy Tales, Cinderella: the ball, the lost slipper, the sisters forgiven» 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 display	obj
2	conduct	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 display	aux
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 display	aux
4	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 display	nsubj
5	display	display	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 sisters	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sisters	nmod:poss
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 display	obl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 repentance	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 repentance	nmod:poss
11	repentance	repentance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 display	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 display	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	display	present · do-support	Cinderella					towards Cinderella's sisters; upon sisters's repentance	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	repent		sisters = sister						nom repentance «feeling 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

She scolded them and turned her back to them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 scolded	nsubj
2	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 scolded	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 turned	cc
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 scolded	conj
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turned	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	past	She	them = they					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	turn back	past	She not said here	her = she	them = they				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to they=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She raised them and forgave them with all her heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 raised	nsubj
2	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 raised	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 forgave	cc
5	forgave	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 raised	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forgave	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 heart	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 heart	det:predet
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heart	nmod:poss
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forgave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past	She	them = they					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	forgive	past	She not said here	them = they				with her heart	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

She ignored them completely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignored	nsubj
2	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignored	obj
4	completely	completely	ADV	_	2 ignored	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	She	them = they				completely property	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

She lectured them about their cruelty at length

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lectured	nsubj
2	lectured	lecture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lectured	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 cruelty	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cruelty	nmod:poss
6	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lectured	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 length	case
8	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cruelty	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lecture speech: other	past	She	them = they				about their cruelty at length	tree rules

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