Exam question 1 · Violet Fairy Book, Prince Rainbow: the Princess wins her p…

Through which agency was the Prince finally roused from his slumber?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Prince, his · What happens: be, slumber · To what, where: agency

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1707 «Violet Fairy Book, Prince Rainbow: the Princess wins her prince and becomes queen» 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	Through	through	ADP	_	3 agency	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 agency	det
3	agency	agency	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roused	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 roused	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 roused	nsubj
7	finally	finally	ADV	_	8 roused	advmod
8	roused	rouse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 slumber	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 slumber	nmod:poss
11	slumber	slumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roused	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 roused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Prince			which agency		from his slumber; finally, rouse property	tree rules
2	slumber		his = he						nom slumber «state intransitive»: poss=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

the crystal bottle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bottle	det
2	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bottle	amod
3	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the siren let out of the glass jar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 siren	det
2	siren	siren	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	8 jar	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 jar	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 jar	det
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jar	compound
8	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let out	past	the siren	the glass jar					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the syren released from the crystal bottle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 syren	det
2	syren	syren	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 syren	acl
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 bottle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bottle	det
6	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bottle	compound
7	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 released	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	release	participle		the syren not said here		the crystal bottle			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer

Option 4

the mermaid freed from her bottle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mermaid	det
2	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 freed	nsubj
3	freed	free	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 bottle	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bottle	nmod:poss
6	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 freed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	free	past	the mermaid			mermaid's bottle			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer

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