Exam question 1 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pi…

Upon which occasion did the Prince's father condemn the gypsy to death?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: father · What happens: condemn · To what, where: gypsy

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1565 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pin pulled from a bird» 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	Upon	upon	SCONJ	_	4 did	mark
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 occasion	det
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 condemn	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 father	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Prince	case
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 condemn	nsubj
9	condemn	condemn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gypsy	det
11	gypsy	gypsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 condemn	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 death	case
13	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 condemn	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 condemn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	condemn	past · do-support	the Prince's father	the gypsy				to death	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gypsy=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 · ✓ the right answer

upon discovering the imposture

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	2 discovering	mark
2	discovering	discover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 imposture	det
4	imposture	imposture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 discovering	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discover	gerund		the imposture					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent imposture=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

once the whole court learned the bride was really a gypsy girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	once	once	SCONJ	_	5 learned	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 court	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 court	amod
4	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 learned	nsubj
5	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bride	det
7	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 girl	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 girl	cop
9	really	really	ADV	_	12 girl	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 girl	det
11	gypsy	gypsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 girl	amod
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 learned	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	the whole court						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the bride	a gypsy girl					tree rules

Option 3

after the false bride had been unmasked in the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 unmasked	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bride	det
3	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bride	amod
4	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 unmasked	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 unmasked	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 unmasked	aux:pass
7	unmasked	unmask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hall	det
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 unmasked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unmask	past · perfect · passive		the false bride		the hall			tree rules

Option 4

after the wedding feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	after	after	ADP	_	4 feast	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 feast	det
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feast	compound
4	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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