Exam question 2 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Pig King, part 26: the Princess str…

Which instruction did the mother of the Moon give to the Princess regarding the chicken bones?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: instruction, mother · What happens: do, give, regard · To what, where: Princess

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1529 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Pig King, part 26: the Princess struggles across deserts and mountains to the Sun's palace» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 instruction	det
2	instruction	instruction	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 mother	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Moon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Moon	det
8	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mother	nmod
9	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 Princess	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
12	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obl
13	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 bones	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bones	det
15	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bones	compound
16	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Princess	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	do	past	which instruction		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	present	the mother of the Moon	the Princess regard the chicken bones	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to princess=Recipient
3	regard	gerund			vn assessment-34.1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

that she should not lose any of the bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 lose	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lose	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lose	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 lose	advmod
5	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 lose	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 bones	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bones	det
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 any	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lose	should	she	any					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality

Option 2

that she should carry the chicken safely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 carry	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carry	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 carry	aux
4	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chicken	det
6	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carry	obj
7	safely	safely	ADV	_	4 carry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	should	she	the chicken				safely property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

not to eat them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 eat	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 eat	mark
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	to-infinitive		them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

that she must share the bones with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 share	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 share	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 share	aux
4	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bones	det
6	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 share	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 share	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	must	she	the bones				with him = he	tree rules

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