Exam question 2 · Violet Fairy Book, Prince Rainbow: the Princess wins her p…

Which relative of the Prince arrived in the first carriage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: relative · What happens: arrive · To what, where: first carriage

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 relative	det
2	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arrived	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Prince	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 relative	nmod
6	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 carriage	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 carriage	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 carriage	amod
10	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arrived	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 arrived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	which relative of the Prince			the first carriage			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

his mother, the Queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Queen	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Queen	det
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mother	appos

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

Option 2

his mother, the Queen, in the first and most splendid carriage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Queen	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Queen	det
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mother	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 carriage	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	13 carriage	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 carriage	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 carriage	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 splendid	cc
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 splendid	advmod
12	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 first	conj
13	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	conj

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

Option 3

his mother, the Queen, who had ridden all night from the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ridden	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Queen	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Queen	det
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mother	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ridden	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 ridden	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ridden	aux
9	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ridden	obl:unmarked
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 north	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 north	det
14	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ridden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past · perfect	his mother			the north	night		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from north=Trajectory

Option 4

his uncle, the Duke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 uncle	nmod:poss
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Duke	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Duke	det
5	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 uncle	appos

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

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