Exam question 4 · Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printanière: the Princess is…

Why did Fanfaronade attempt to cast the Princess into the sea?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fanfaronade · What happens: attempt, cast · To what, where: Princess, sea

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1510 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printanière: the Princess is freed and wed, and Halvor sees a lit castle» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 attempt	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 attempt	aux
3	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 attempt	nsubj
4	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cast	mark
6	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 attempt	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Princess	det
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 attempt	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attempt	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 attempt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attempt	past · do-support	Fanfaronade	the Princess		the sea			tree rules
2	cast not said to happen	to-infinitive	Fanfaronade not said here						vn build-26.1 «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 free the Admiral

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 free	mark
2	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Admiral	det
4	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 free	nsubj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

to avenge Carabosse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 avenge	mark
2	avenge	avenge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Carabosse	Carabosse	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 avenge	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avenge	to-infinitive		Carabosse					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

to seize the carbuncle and dagger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 seize	mark
2	seize	seize	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 carbuncle	det
4	carbuncle	carbuncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seize	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dagger	cc
6	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carbuncle	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	to-infinitive		the carbuncle and dagger					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carbuncle=Theme

Option 4

to win her love

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	to-infinitive		her love					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality
2	love		her = she						nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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