Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's…
By what means does the Princess ultimately recover her natural form?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess, her · What happens: mean, recover, form · To what, where: natural form
This is exam question 3 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 recover | obl |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 recover | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 6 | Princess | Princes | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 recover | nsubj |
| 7 | ultimately | ultimately | ADV | _ | 8 recover | advmod |
| 8 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 form | nmod:poss |
| 10 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 form | amod |
| 11 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 recover | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 recover | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | recover | present · do-support | the Princess | her natural form | ultimately property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | |||
| 3 | form | her = she | 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 · ← Mova's choice
The Prince cuts her head off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cuts | nsubj |
| 3 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cuts | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADV | _ | 3 cuts | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | present | the Prince | her head | off property | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
Option 2
The Prince strikes off the cat's head with his sword after she begs him to do it
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 strikes | nsubj |
| 3 | strikes | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cat | det |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 cat | case |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strikes | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 sword | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sword | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strikes | obl |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 begs | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 begs | nsubj |
| 14 | begs | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 strikes | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 begs | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 begs | xcomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike off | present | the Prince | the cat's head | with Prince's sword | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Patient with sword=Instrument | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | present | cat | Prince | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | cat not said here | sword | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The Prince strikes off the cat's head with his sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 strikes | nsubj |
| 3 | strikes | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cat | det |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 cat | case |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strikes | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 sword | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sword | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strikes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike off | present | the Prince | the cat's head | with Prince's sword | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Patient with sword=Instrument |
Option 4
A true love's kiss breaks it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 love | det |
| 2 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 love | amod |
| 3 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kiss | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 love | case |
| 5 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 breaks | nsubj |
| 6 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 breaks | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | a true love's kiss | love | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | kiss | a true love | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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