Exam question 1 · Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the broth…

Which action did the elder princess perform upon the person she believed to be Minnikin?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: action, elder princess, princess · What happens: do, perform, believe, be · To what, where: person, Minnikin

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1576 «Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the brother fetches his sister, and they set sail with the stepmother» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 action	det
2	action	action	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 princess	det
5	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 princess	amod
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 perform	nsubj
7	perform	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 person	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 person	det
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 perform	obl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 believed	nsubj
12	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 person	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	15 Minnikin	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 Minnikin	cop
15	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 believed	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	which action			tree rules
2	perform	present	the elder princess		upon the person	vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	believe	past	princess	the person not said here		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus
4	is a	to-infinitive		Minnikin		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 right answer

She embraced him and kissed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 embraced	nsubj
2	embraced	embrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 embraced	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kissed	cc
5	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 embraced	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kissed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	embrace	past	She	him = he					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
2	kiss	past	She not said here	him = he					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 2

She hugged him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hugged	nsubj
2	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hugged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	past	She	him = he					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 3

She waved to him from the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waved	obl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 window	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 window	det
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	She		him = he	the window			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She kissed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kissed	nsubj
2	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kissed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	She	him = he					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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