Exam question 3 · Pink Fairy Book, The Cat's Elopement, part 1: Gon and Koma…

What was the outcome of the serpent's attempt to kiss the princess?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: serpent · What happens: be, kiss, attempt · To what, where: outcome, princess

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1612 «Pink Fairy Book, The Cat's Elopement, part 1: Gon and Koma run away, but a big dog splits them up» 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	4 outcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 outcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 outcome	det
4	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 attempt	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 serpent	det
7	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attempt	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 serpent	case
9	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outcome	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 kiss	mark
11	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 attempt	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princess	det
13	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kiss	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the outcome	of the serpent's attempt	tree rules
2	kiss	to-infinitive		the princess		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Co-Agent
3	attempt		the serpent			nom attempt «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

He was scratched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scratched	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scratched	aux:pass
3	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	past · passive		He					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

He was bitten and then shaken hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bitten	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bitten	aux:pass
3	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shaken	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 shaken	advmod
6	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bitten	conj
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 shaken	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past · passive		He					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	shake	participle					then	hard property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He was bitten, shaken and flung down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bitten	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bitten	aux:pass
3	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shaken	punct
5	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bitten	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 flung	cc
7	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bitten	conj
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 flung	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	bite	past · passive	He	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	shake	participle		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	fling down	participle		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He was clawed and tossed aside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 clawed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clawed	aux:pass
3	clawed	claw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tossed	cc
5	tossed	toss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 clawed	conj
6	aside	aside	ADV	_	5 tossed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claw	past · passive		He					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	toss	participle						aside property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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