Exam question 4 · Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa…
Of what fault does the Queen falsely accuse the Princess concerning the skein?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queen, Princess · What happens: do, accuse, concern · To what, where: Princess, skein
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1543 «Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa tricks the Queen with the thread, then faces a barrel of mixed-up feathers» 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 fault | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 fault | nsubj |
| 3 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obl |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 accuse | nsubj |
| 7 | falsely | falsely | ADV | _ | 8 accuse | advmod |
| 8 | accuse | accuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 does | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accuse | obj |
| 11 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 Princess | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 skein | det |
| 13 | skein | skein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 concerning | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | of fault | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | accuse | present | the Queen | the Princess | falsely property | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | |||
| 3 | concern | gerund | the Princess not said here | the skein | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus skein=Experiencer |
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
Its broken thread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 thread | nmod:poss |
| 2 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 thread | amod |
| 3 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
The soiled condition of the whole skein and its ends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 condition | det |
| 2 | soiled | soil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 condition | amod |
| 3 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 skein | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 skein | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 skein | amod |
| 7 | skein | skein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 condition | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ends | cc |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ends | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 condition | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soil | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | condition | the whole skein | nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Its tangled colour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 colour | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tangled | tangled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 colour | amod |
| 3 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Its soiled condition
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 condition | nmod:poss |
| 2 | soiled | soil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 condition | amod |
| 3 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soil | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | condition | Its = it | nom condition «state transitive»: poss=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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