Exam question 3 · Violet Fairy Book, Prince Rainbow: the Princess wins her p…

Why did the little dog attack Lagree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little dog · What happens: attack · To what, where: Lagree

This is exam question 3 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 attack	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 attack	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dog	amod
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attack	nsubj
6	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Lagree	Lagree	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 attack	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 attack	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attack	past · do-support	the little dog	Lagree					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lagree=Patient

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 guard its mistress from danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 guard	mark
2	guard	guard	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mistress	nmod:poss
4	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guard	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 danger	case
6	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	to-infinitive			its mistress			from danger	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent mistress=Beneficiary from danger=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to protect its mistress from Lagree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 protect	mark
2	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mistress	nmod:poss
4	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protect	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Lagree	case
6	Lagree	Lagree	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 protect	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	to-infinitive			its mistress			from Lagree	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent mistress=Beneficiary from lagree=Theme

Option 3

to protect its mistress from Lagree who was trying to take her away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 protect	mark
2	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 trying	advcl
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mistress	nmod:poss
4	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protect	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Lagree	case
6	Lagree	Lagree	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 protect	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 trying	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 trying	aux
9	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 take	mark
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 trying	xcomp
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 take	obj
13	away	away	ADV	_	11 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	protect	to-infinitive		its mistress	from Lagree	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent mistress=Beneficiary from lagree=Theme
2	try	past · progressive				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	take away not said to happen	to-infinitive	mistress		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

to protect its mistress from Lagree after he had hit the cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 protect	mark
2	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mistress	nmod:poss
4	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protect	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Lagree	case
6	Lagree	Lagree	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 protect	obl
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 hit	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hit	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hit	aux
10	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 protect	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cat	det
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	to-infinitive			its mistress			from Lagree	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent mistress=Beneficiary from lagree=Theme
2	hit	past · perfect	mistress	the cat					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cat=Co-Theme

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