Exam question 3 · Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's…

Specify the reason the Princess could not traverse the Golden Fountain unaided.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Princess, Golden Fountain · What happens: specify, not traverse, unaid · To what, where: reason

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1699 «Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's name, and Rosalie reaches the Golden Isle» 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	Specify	specify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Specify	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 traverse	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 traverse	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 traverse	advmod
8	traverse	traverse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reason	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Fountain	det
10	Golden	Golden	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Fountain	compound
11	Fountain	Fountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 unaided	nsubj
12	unaided	unaid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 traverse	ccomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Specify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	specify	imperative	you not said here	the reason	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	not traverse	could	the Princess	the reason not said here	tree rules
3	unaid	past	the Golden Fountain		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

Want of power to fly across

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Want	want	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 power	case
3	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Want	obl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fly	mark
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Want	xcomp
6	across	across	ADV	_	5 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	imperative	you not said here					of power	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	fly not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here					across property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Lack of magic to breathe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 magic	case
3	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lack	nmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 breathe	mark
5	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Lack	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	to-infinitive							vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lack			magic					nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Lack of boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 boat	case
3	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lack	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lack			boat					nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Absence of power to live under water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 power	case
3	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Absence	nmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 live	mark
5	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Absence	acl
6	under	under	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	to-infinitive				water			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under water=Location
2	absent			power					nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient

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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