Exam question 3 · Yellow Fairy Book, Minon-Minette, part 51: the princess es…

What was the outcome of the encounter between Souci and the princess in the air?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: outcome

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1662 «Yellow Fairy Book, Minon-Minette, part 51: the princess escapes the fairy on a magic fan and meets Souci in the air» 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	_	7 encounter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 encounter	det
7	encounter	encounter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outcome	nmod
8	between	between	ADP	_	9 Souci	case
9	Souci	Souci	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 encounter	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 princess	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 encounter	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 air	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 air	det
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 princess	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the outcome				of the encounter between Souci and the princess in the air	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 · ← Mova's choice

They fought, and the meeting was an unhappy one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 one	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 meeting	det
6	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 one	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 one	cop
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fought	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	They						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the meeting	a unhappy one					tree rules

Option 2

A happy meeting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 meeting	det
2	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 meeting	amod
3	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

They met for the first time, and it was happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 met	nsubj
2	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 time	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 met	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 happy	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 happy	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 happy	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 happy	cop
11	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 met	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	They				time		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					happy property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Their first meeting took place, and it was a happy one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 meeting	nmod:poss
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 meeting	amod
3	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 one	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 one	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 one	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 one	det
11	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Their first meeting	place					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
2	is a	past	meeting	a happy one					tree rules

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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