Exam question 2 · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, pa…

What was the Queen's principal motive for abandoning the Princess in the forest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: principal motive · What happens: be, abandon · To what, where: principal motive, Princess, forest

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1542 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, part 39: feathers instead of rods, a forest, and a crystal 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 motive	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 motive	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 motive	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Queen	case
6	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 motive	amod
7	motive	motive	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 abandoning	mark
9	abandoning	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 motive	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 abandoning	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 forest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 forest	det
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 abandoning	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 motive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Queen's principal motive					tree rules
2	abandon	gerund	the Queen's principal motive not said here	the Princess		the forest			vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme princess=Source

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

to be rid of her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 rid	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 rid	cop
3	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						of her = she; rid property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to avenge the humiliation of her knights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 avenge	mark
2	avenge	avenge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 humiliation	det
4	humiliation	humiliation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 avenge	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 knights	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 knights	nmod:poss
7	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 humiliation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avenge	to-infinitive		the humiliation of her knights					tree rules
2	humiliate			her knights					nom humiliation «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

to rid the court of an unwanted girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 rid	mark
2	rid	rid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 court	det
4	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rid	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 girl	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 girl	det
7	unwanted	unwanted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girl	amod
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 court	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rid	to-infinitive		the court of a unwanted girl					vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Source

Option 4

to punish the Princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 punish	mark
2	punish	punish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Princess	det
4	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 punish	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	to-infinitive		the Princess					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

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