Exam question 2 · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 24: stolen dinne…

What penalty did the King of the Peacocks threaten to impose upon the two prisoners?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: penalty, King · What happens: do, threaten, impose

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1527 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 24: stolen dinners lead the King to the real Princess» 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	penalty	penalty	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 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 threaten	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Peacocks	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Peacocks	det
8	Peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 King	nmod
9	threaten	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 impose	mark
11	impose	impose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 threaten	xcomp
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 prisoners	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prisoners	det
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 prisoners	nummod
15	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 impose	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	penalty		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	threaten	present	the King of the Peacocks		tree rules
3	impose not said to happen	to-infinitive	the King of the Peacocks not said here	upon the two prisoners	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

being thrown into the sea to drown at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thrown	aux:pass
2	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thrown	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 drown	mark
7	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thrown	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 drown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	gerund · passive						into the sea result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into sea=Result
2	drown	to-infinitive							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

decapitation by sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	decapitation	decapitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 sword	case
3	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 decapitation	nmod

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

Option 3

beheading by the royal executioner's axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beheading	behead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	7 axe	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 executioner	det
4	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 executioner	amod
5	executioner	executioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 axe	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 executioner	case
7	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 beheading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	behead	gerund						by the royal executioner's axe	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

burning at the stake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 stake	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stake	det
4	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 burning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund				the stake			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at stake=Location

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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