Exam question 3 · Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince a…

Which penalty was imposed upon the old witch through the maidens' design?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maidens · What happens: impose, design · To what, where: penalty, design

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1456 «Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince again and the witch is punished» 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 penalty	det
2	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 imposed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 imposed	aux:pass
4	imposed	impose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 witch	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 witch	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 witch	amod
8	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 imposed	obl
9	through	through	ADP	_	13 design	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 maidens	det
11	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 design	nmod:poss
12	'	's	PART	_	11 maidens	case
13	design	design	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 imposed	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 imposed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	impose	past · passive		which penalty		the maidens's design		upon the old witch	vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	design		the maidens						nom design «act 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

She ate a poisoned pie and died

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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pie	det
4	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pie	amod
5	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 died	cc
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat	past	She	a poisoned pie	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pie=Patient
2	poison	participle			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	die	past	She not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

She was burned

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	3 burned	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burned	aux:pass
3	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · passive		She					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 3

She swallowed poison and expired

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 swallowed	nsubj
2	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swallowed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 expired	cc
5	expired	expire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 swallowed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	She	poison					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Patient
2	expire	participle	She not said here						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She consumed a poisoned cake and expired

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 consumed	nsubj
2	consumed	consume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cake	det
4	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cake	amod
5	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consumed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 expired	cc
7	expired	expire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 consumed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	consume	past	She	a poisoned cake	vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Asset
2	poison	participle			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	expire	participle	She not said here		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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