Exam question 2 · Household Tales, The Iron Stove, the toad's gifts and the…

What was the purpose of the sleeping-draught administered by the false bride?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: purpose, sleeping draught · What happens: be, administer, purpose · To what, where: sleeping draught

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1686 «Household Tales, The Iron Stove, the toad's gifts and the wedding» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 purpose	det
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 draught	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 draught	det
7	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 draught	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 sleeping	punct
9	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purpose	nmod
10	administered	administer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 draught	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 bride	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bride	det
13	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bride	amod
14	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 administered	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the purpose of the sleeping draught			tree rules
2	administer	participle		the sleeping draught not said here	by the false bride	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	purpose		the sleeping draught			nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=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

to make the Prince dream of a better bride at the feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dream	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dream	compound
5	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 bride	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bride	det
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 bride	amod
9	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dream	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 feast	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 feast	det
12	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the Prince dream of a better bride		the feast			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dream=Product
2	dream			a better bride					nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to prevent the Prince from waking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 prevent	mark
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 prevent	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 waking	mark
6	waking	wake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 prevent	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent	to-infinitive		the Prince					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer prince=Theme
2	wake	gerund							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

to stop the Prince from waking so the bride could marry him secretly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stop	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 waking	mark
6	waking	wake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stop	advcl
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 marry	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bride	det
9	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 marry	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 marry	aux
11	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stop	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 marry	obj
13	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	11 marry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		the Prince		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality prince=Eventuality
2	wake	gerund				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	marry	could	the bride	him = he	secretly property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

to make the Prince forget her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the Prince					tree rules
2	forget	infinitive	the Prince not said here	her = she					tree rules

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