Exam question 2 · Blue Fairy Book, Prince Pink, part 36: Felicia hears her t…

State the cause of the fainting of Felicia in the passage.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, cause · To what, where: cause, passage, fainting

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1449 «Blue Fairy Book, Prince Pink, part 36: Felicia hears her true story and wins back her pinks» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cause	det
3	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 fainting	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fainting	det
6	fainting	fainting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cause	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Felicia	case
8	Felicia	Felicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fainting	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 passage	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 passage	det
11	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the cause of the fainting of Felicia		the passage			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cause=Topic
2	cause			the fainting of Felicia					nom cause «event transitive»: of=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

The cold of the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cold	det
2	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 garden	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 garden	det
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cold	nmod

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

Option 2

The shock of hearing a cabbage, a hen and a pink speak in the garden

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shock	det
2	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 hearing	mark
4	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 shock	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cabbage	det
6	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hearing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hen	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hen	det
9	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shock	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 speak	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 speak	det
12	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 speak	amod
13	speak	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shock	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 garden	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 garden	det
16	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shock	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the shock in the garden and a hen and a pink speak not said here	a cabbage					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cabbage=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The shock of hearing a cabbage, a hen and a pink speak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shock	det
2	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 hearing	mark
4	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 shock	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cabbage	det
6	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hearing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hen	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hen	det
9	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shock	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 speak	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 speak	det
12	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 speak	amod
13	speak	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shock	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the shock and a hen and a pink speak not said here	a cabbage					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cabbage=Stimulus

Option 4

The shock of hearing a cabbage, a hen and a pink speak together, after a long day of work in the heat

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shock	det
2	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 hearing	mark
4	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 shock	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cabbage	det
6	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hearing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hen	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hen	det
9	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cabbage	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 speak	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 speak	det
12	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 speak	amod
13	speak	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cabbage	conj
14	together	together	ADV	_	4 hearing	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 day	punct
16	after	after	ADP	_	19 day	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 day	det
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 day	amod
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shock	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 work	case
21	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 day	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 heat	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 heat	det
24	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shock	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the shock in the heat and a long day of work not said here	a cabbage and a hen and a pink speak				together property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cabbage=Stimulus

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