Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's…

Which sentence most accurately describes the Prince's response when the Princess requests the decapitation of her feline form?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sentence, Princess · What happens: describe, request, form · To what, where: response, decapitation

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1453 «Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's head and the spell breaks» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 sentence	det
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 describes	nsubj
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 accurately	advmod
4	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	5 describes	advmod
5	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Prince	det
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 response	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Prince	case
9	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 describes	obj
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 requests	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 requests	nsubj
13	requests	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 describes	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 decapitation	det
15	decapitation	decapitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 requests	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 form	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 form	nmod:poss
18	feline	feline	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 form	amod
19	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 decapitation	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	describe	present	which sentence	the Prince's response	accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	request	present	the Princess	the decapitation of Princess's feline form		vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent decapitation=Recipient
3	form		Princess			nom form «communication 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

He resists, then obeys with sorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 resists	nsubj
2	resists	resist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 obeys	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 obeys	advmod
5	obeys	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 resists	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 sorrow	case
7	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 obeys	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resist	present	He						tree rules
2	obey	present	He not said here				then	with sorrow	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He initially refuses and begs her, then complies with reluctance after much weeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 refuses	nsubj
2	initially	initially	ADV	_	3 refuses	advmod
3	refuses	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 begs	cc
5	begs	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 refuses	conj
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 begs	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 complies	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 complies	advmod
9	complies	comply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 refuses	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 reluctance	case
11	reluctance	reluctance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 complies	obl
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 weeping	case
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 weeping	amod
14	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 complies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	present	He			initially property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	beg speech: request	present	He not said here	her = she			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	comply	present	He not said here		after much weeping; then	with reluctance	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He initially refuses, then complies with reluctance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 refuses	nsubj
2	initially	initially	ADV	_	3 refuses	advmod
3	refuses	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 complies	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 complies	advmod
6	complies	comply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 refuses	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 reluctance	case
8	reluctance	reluctance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 complies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	present	He					initially property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	comply	present	He not said here				then	with reluctance	tree rules

Option 4

He weeps, then does as asked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 weeps	nsubj
2	weeps	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 asked	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 asked	advmod
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 asked	aux
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 asked	advmod
7	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 weeps	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	present	He						tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	present · do-support	He not said here				then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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