Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's…

Describe the single action the youngest Princess was forbidden to perform during the night in the golden bed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: describe, forbid, perform · To what, where: single action, youngest Princess, golden bed

This is exam question 4 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	Describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 action	det
3	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 action	amod
4	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Describe	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
6	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 Princess	amod
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 forbidden	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 forbidden	aux:pass
9	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 action	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 perform	mark
11	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 forbidden	xcomp
12	during	during	ADP	_	14 night	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 perform	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 bed	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bed	det
17	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bed	amod
18	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 perform	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	describe	imperative	you not said here	the single action			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent action=Theme
2	forbid	past · passive		the youngest Princess			tree rules
3	perform	to-infinitive			the golden bed	night	vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=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

To leave the bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 leave	mark
2	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bed	det
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	to-infinitive		the bed					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme

Option 2

To speak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 speak	mark
2	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	to-infinitive							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To cry out aloud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 cry	mark
2	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 cry	compound:prt
4	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	2 cry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	to-infinitive						aloud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

To sing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 sing	mark
2	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	to-infinitive							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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