Exam question 4 · Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetche…

What was the condition of the brothers when the youngest's muslin was revealed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, reveal · To what, where: condition, youngest muslin

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1452 «Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetches muslin from a millet seed and is sent for a princess» 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	4 condition	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 condition	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 condition	det
4	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 brothers	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brothers	det
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 condition	nmod
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 revealed	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 muslin	det
10	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 muslin	amod
11	's	's	PART	_	10 youngest	case
12	muslin	muslin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 revealed	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 revealed	aux:pass
14	revealed	reveal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 condition	acl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 condition	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the condition				of the brothers	tree rules
2	reveal	past · passive		the youngest muslin					vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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

They stood silent and sorrowful, unable to speak a single word at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sorrowful	cc
5	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 silent	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 unable	punct
7	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 silent	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 speak	mark
9	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 unable	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 word	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 word	amod
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 speak	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	They					silent property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	They not said here	a single word		all			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They stood silent and sorrowful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sorrowful	cc
5	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 silent	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	They					silent property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They looked pleased and proud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 proud	cc
5	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pleased	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	They					pleased property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

They stood silent and sorrowful with bowed heads before the throne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sorrowful	cc
5	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 silent	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 heads	case
7	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 heads	amod
8	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obl
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 throne	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 throne	det
11	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	They			the throne		with bowed heads; silent property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before throne=Location
2	bow	participle							vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: 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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