Exam question 3 · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, pa…

By what means did the Duchess's beating fail to injure the Princess?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, do, injure · To what, where: beating fail, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Duchess	det
6	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fail	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Duchess	case
8	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fail	compound
9	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 injure	mark
11	injure	injure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fail	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Princess	det
13	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 injure	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past	the Duchess's beating fail	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fail=Eventuality
3	injure	to-infinitive	the Princess	tree rules

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 rods were transformed into peacock's feathers by Percinet's magic before they could touch her skin

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rods	det
2	rods	rod	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 transformed	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 transformed	aux:pass
4	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 feathers	case
6	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feathers	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 peacock	case
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 transformed	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 magic	case
10	Percinet	Percinet	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 magic	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Percinet	case
12	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 transformed	obl
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 touch	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 touch	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 touch	aux
16	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 transformed	advcl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 skin	nmod:poss
18	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transform	past · passive	Percinet's magic	the rods				into peacock's feathers result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient into feather=Result
2	touch	could	rods = rod	Percinet's skin					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme skin=Co-Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the rods were transformed into peacock's feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rods	det
2	rods	rod	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 transformed	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 transformed	aux:pass
4	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 feathers	case
6	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feathers	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 peacock	case
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 transformed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transform	past · passive		the rods				into peacock's feathers result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into feather=Result

Option 3

the rods were transformed into peacock's feathers, and the Duchess's women fainted from fright at the sight

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rods	det
2	rods	rod	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 transformed	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 transformed	aux:pass
4	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 feathers	case
6	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feathers	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 peacock	case
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 transformed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fainted	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fainted	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Duchess	det
12	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 women	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Duchess	case
14	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fainted	nsubj
15	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 transformed	conj
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 fright	case
17	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fainted	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 sight	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sight	det
20	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fainted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transform	past · passive		the rods				into peacock's feathers result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into feather=Result
2	faint	past	the Duchess's women					at the sight; from fright	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from fright=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the women refused to strike her at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 women	det
2	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 refused	nsubj
3	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 strike	mark
5	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 refused	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 strike	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 strike	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	the women						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not strike	to-infinitive	the women not said here	her = she		all			tree rules

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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