Exam question 2 · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy pro…

What proposal did the Princess make to the Ambassador after the storm?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: proposal, Princess · What happens: do, make

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1508 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy procession, a cursed scarf, a midnight escape by boat» 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	3 did	obj
2	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Ambassador	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Ambassador	det
9	Ambassador	Ambassador	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 make	obl
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 storm	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 storm	det
12	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	proposal						tree rules
2	make	present	the Princess				after the storm	to the Ambassador	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

to wed the Ambassador soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 wed	mark
2	wed	wed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Ambassador	det
4	Ambassador	Ambassador	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wed	obj
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 wed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wed	to-infinitive		the Ambassador				soon property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ambassador=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

to marry him instead of his master, the Prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 marry	mark
2	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 marry	obj
4	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	7 master	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 instead	fixed
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 master	nmod:poss
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marry	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Prince	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Prince	det
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 master	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	to-infinitive		him = he				instead his master	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

to pay a large sum of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 pay	mark
2	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sum	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sum	amod
5	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pay	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 gold	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sum	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	to-infinitive		a large sum of gold					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Asset
2	sum			gold					nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to marry him instead of his master

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 marry	mark
2	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 marry	obj
4	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	7 master	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 instead	fixed
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 master	nmod:poss
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	to-infinitive		him = he				instead his master	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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