Exam question 3 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Three Oranges, part 60: Désiré oils…

What substance did the Prince extract from his gourd at the moment the narrative concludes?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: substance, narrative · What happens: do, conclude · To what, where: Prince extract, gourd, moment

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1563 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Three Oranges, part 60: Désiré oils the gate, pleases the helpers, and reaches a thirsty sandy plain» 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	substance	substance	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	6 extract	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 extract	compound
6	extract	extract	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 gourd	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 gourd	nmod:poss
9	gourd	gourd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 extract	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 moment	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moment	det
12	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 narrative	det
14	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 concludes	nsubj
15	concludes	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 moment	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	substance	the Prince extract		substance's gourd	moment		tree rules
2	conclude	present	the narrative	the moment not said here					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moment=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

Dried figs from his bag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dried	dried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 figs	amod
2	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 bag	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bag	nmod:poss
5	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 figs	nmod

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

Option 2

Oil, which he poured out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poured	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 poured	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 poured	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poured	nsubj
5	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 poured	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour out	past	Oil						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Water, which he raised to his lips

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raised	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 raised	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 raised	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 raised	nsubj
5	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 lips	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lips	nmod:poss
8	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 raised	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past	he			his lips			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme to lip=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A cool drink of water from the spring, which he raised to his lips at last

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 drink	det
2	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drink	amod
3	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 raised	nsubj:outer
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drink	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 spring	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spring	det
8	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drink	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 raised	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 raised	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 raised	nsubj
12	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 lips	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lips	nmod:poss
15	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 raised	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 raised	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past	a cool drink of water from the spring			last		to his lips	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme to lip=Destination at last=Initial_Location

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