Exam question 4 · Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides…

Which quality does the Queen's sacrifice of her last pea most clearly demonstrate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quality, last pea, Queen · What happens: do, demonstrate, sacrifice · To what, where: sacrifice, last pea

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1538 «Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides her baby in a basket after a mouse brings luck» 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 quality	det
2	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Queen	det
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sacrifice	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Queen	case
7	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 pea	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pea	nmod:poss
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pea	amod
11	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sacrifice	nmod
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 clearly	advmod
13	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	14 demonstrate	advmod
14	demonstrate	demonstrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 pea	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	which quality	the Queen's sacrifice of quality's last pea		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sacrifice=Eventuality
2	demonstrate	infinitive	quality's last pea not said here		clearly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sacrifice		the Queen	quality's last pea		nom sacrifice «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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

Generosity toward a creature in need, shown even at her own great cost and hunger

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Generosity	generosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 creature	nsubj
2	toward	toward	ADP	_	4 creature	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 creature	det
4	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 need	case
6	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 creature	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shown	punct
8	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 creature	acl
9	even	even	ADV	_	14 cost	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	14 cost	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cost	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cost	amod
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cost	amod
14	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shown	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hunger	cc
16	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cost	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	participle		a creature in need not said here		Generosity's own great cost and hunger			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cost		Generosity						nom cost «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Courage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Kindness toward a helpless animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	toward	toward	ADP	_	5 animal	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 animal	det
4	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animal	amod
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kindness	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Generosity toward a creature in need

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Generosity	generosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	toward	toward	ADP	_	4 creature	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 creature	det
4	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Generosity	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 need	case
6	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 creature	nmod

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

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