Exam question 2 · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks, part 46: Charming…

For what purpose did the King dispatch Charming to the Princess Goldilocks?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: purpose · What happens: do · To what, where: King dispatch

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1459 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks, part 46: Charming is freed, sent to win the Princess, and helped on the road by a carp, a raven and an owl» 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dispatch	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dispatch	compound
7	dispatch	dispatch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dispatch	appos
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 Goldilocks	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Goldilocks	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Goldilocks	compound
12	Goldilocks	Goldilocks	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	purpose	the King dispatch				to the Princess Goldilocks	tree rules

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

To beg her to become the King's bride soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 beg	mark
2	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beg	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 become	mark
5	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 beg	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bride	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 King	case
9	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 become	xcomp
10	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 become	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	to-infinitive			her = she				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	become	to-infinitive		the King's bride				soon property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

To fetch her home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fetch	mark
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 home	nmod:poss
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	to-infinitive		her home					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme

Option 3

To guard her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 guard	mark
2	guard	guard	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 guard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	to-infinitive			her = she				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To persuade her to consent to marry the King

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 persuade	mark
2	persuade	persuade	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 persuade	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 consent	mark
5	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 persuade	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 marry	mark
7	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 consent	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	persuade	to-infinitive		her = she	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result
2	consent	to-infinitive	her = she not said here		vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	marry	to-infinitive	her = she not said here	the King	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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