Exam question 2 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderella, part 31: the gol…

Pursuant to what consideration did the Prince withdraw from the wedding festivities?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: consideration, Prince · What happens: do, withdraw · To what, where: wedding festivities

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1534 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderella, part 31: the golden hemlock and the burnt reindeer skin» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	3 what	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 what	case
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	obj
4	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Prince	det
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 withdraw	nsubj
8	withdraw	withdraw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	ccomp
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 festivities	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 festivities	det
11	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 festivities	compound
12	festivities	festivity	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 withdraw	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	consideration						tree rules
2	withdraw	present	the Prince			the wedding festivities			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from festivity=Initial_Location

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

fear that the reindeer would return to the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 return	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reindeer	det
4	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 return	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 return	aux
6	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 fear	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 palace	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 palace	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 return	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	would	the reindeer	fear not said here		the palace			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fear=Theme to palace=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

shame at so strange a bride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 strange	case
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 strange	advmod
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 shame	amod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bride	det
6	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strange	nsubj

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

Option 3

anger at the feast's cost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	6 cost	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 feast	det
4	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cost	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 feast	case
6	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 anger	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost		the feast						nom cost «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

grief for his lost mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 mother	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 mother	amod
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 grief	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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