Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is c…

Which character was entrusted by the fairies with the execution of their revenge against the Princess?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fairies · What happens: entrust, execute, revenge · To what, where: character, revenge

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1706 «Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is carried off, meets the Rainbow, and breaks a bottle» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entrusted	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 entrusted	aux:pass
4	entrusted	entrust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 fairies	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fairies	det
7	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 entrusted	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 execution	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 execution	det
10	execution	execution	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entrusted	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 revenge	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 revenge	nmod:poss
13	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 execution	nmod
14	against	against	ADP	_	16 Princess	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princess	det
16	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 revenge	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 entrusted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	entrust	past · passive	the fairies	which character	with the execution of fairies's revenge against the Princess	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient with execution=Theme
2	execute			fairies's revenge against the Princess		nom execution «act transitive»: of=patient
3	revenge		fairies = fairy		against the Princess	nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent against=obl

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

The eldest of the tribe, Lagree, who had lost most of her teeth and one eye

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tribe	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 tribe	amod
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 tribe	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tribe	det
5	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Lagree	punct
7	Lagree	Lagree	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tribe	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lost	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lost	aux
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 tribe	conj
12	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 lost	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 teeth	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 teeth	nmod:poss
15	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 most	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 eye	cc
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 eye	nummod
18	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tribe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	the eldest tribe and one eye	most of Lagree's teeth					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The youngest of the tribe, Morwen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youngest	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 tribe	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tribe	det
5	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 youngest	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Morwen	punct
7	Morwen	Morwen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 youngest	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The eldest of the tribe, Lagree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eldest	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 tribe	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tribe	det
5	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eldest	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Lagree	punct
7	Lagree	Lagree	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eldest	obl

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

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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