Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, The King of the Sheep, part 53: Miranda leave…

What was the nature of the fairy Ragotte's punishment upon the prince, as declared by her own words?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ragotte · What happens: be, declare, word · To what, where: fairy punishment

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1466 «Fairy Tales, The King of the Sheep, part 53: Miranda leaves the Sheep King to attend her sister's wedding and returns to him» 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	10 punishment	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 punishment	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nature	det
4	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 punishment	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 fairy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fairy	det
7	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 punishment	compound
8	Ragotte	Ragotte	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 punishment	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Ragotte	case
10	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 prince	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 punishment	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 declared	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 declared	mark
16	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 punishment	parataxis
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 words	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 words	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 words	amod
20	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 declared	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 punishment	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Ragotte's fairy punishment	upon the prince	tree rules
2	declare speech: other	participle			by Ragotte's own words	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	word		Ragotte			nom word «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

He was to be a sheep for seven years, and servant of the cruel witch

The tree, 15 words

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	6 sheep	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sheep	cop
3	to	to	PART	_	6 sheep	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sheep	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sheep	det
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sheep	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 servant	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 servant	cc
12	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sheep	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 witch	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 witch	det
15	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 witch	amod
16	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 servant	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a sheep and servant of the cruel witch			year		tree rules

Option 2

He would be banished from the land

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	4 banished	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 banished	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 banished	aux:pass
4	banished	banish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 land	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 land	det
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 banished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	banish	would · passive		He		the land			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from land=Source

Option 3

He was to be a sheep forever

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	6 sheep	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sheep	cop
3	to	to	PART	_	6 sheep	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sheep	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sheep	det
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	forever	forever	ADV	_	6 sheep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a sheep				forever property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was to be a sheep for five years, and lord of the pleasant land

The tree, 15 words

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	6 sheep	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sheep	cop
3	to	to	PART	_	6 sheep	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sheep	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sheep	det
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sheep	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lord	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lord	cc
12	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sheep	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 land	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 land	det
15	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 land	amod
16	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lord	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a sheep and lord of the pleasant land			year		tree rules

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