Exam question 2 · Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duc…

What reason did the nurse give for persuading the Princess to conduct herself amiably?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: reason, nurse · What happens: do, give, persuade, conduct · To what, where: Princess

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1541 «Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duchess gets her gold and is thrown from the horse» 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	reason	reason	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 nurse	det
5	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 persuading	mark
8	persuading	persuade	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 give	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
10	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 persuading	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 conduct	mark
12	conduct	conduct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 persuading	advcl
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 conduct	obj
14	amiably	amiably	ADV	_	12 conduct	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	reason			tree rules
2	give	present	the nurse			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	persuade	gerund	the nurse not said here	the Princess		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
4	conduct	to-infinitive	the nurse not said here	Princess	amiably property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme

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

so the court would like her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	5 like	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 court	det
3	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 like	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	would	the court	her = she					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme

Option 2

that she was a Princess and must set a good example to all the court and her subjects

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 Princess	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Princess	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Princess	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Princess	cc
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 set	aux
8	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 example	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 example	amod
11	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 court	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 court	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 court	det
15	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 subjects	cc
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 subjects	nmod:poss
18	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 court	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a Princess					tree rules
2	set	must	a Princess	a good example				to all court and Princess's subjects	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient example=Result

Option 3

that the court watched her and she must behave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 watched	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 court	det
3	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watched	nsubj
4	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 watched	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 behave	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 behave	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 behave	aux
9	behave	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 watched	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	the court	her = she					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	behave	must	court						vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

that she was a Princess and must set a good example

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 Princess	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Princess	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Princess	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 set	cc
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 set	aux
8	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 Princess	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 example	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 example	amod
11	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a Princess					tree rules
2	set	must	she not said here	a good example					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient example=Result

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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