Exam question 3 · Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three son…

What was the outcome of the King's recognition of the White Duck?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: King · What happens: be, recognize · To what, where: outcome, White Duck

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1713 «Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three sons guard the magic fruit» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 outcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 outcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 outcome	det
4	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 recognition	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 recognition	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 King	case
9	recognition	recognition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outcome	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 Duck	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Duck	det
12	White	White	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Duck	amod
13	Duck	Duck	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 recognition	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the outcome				of the King's recognition of the White Duck	tree rules
2	recognize		the King	the White Duck					nom recognition «state transitive»: poss=agent of=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

She became a bird again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
5	again	again	ADV	_	2 became	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	She	a bird			again		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She became his wife again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
5	again	again	ADV	_	2 became	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	She	his wife			again		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

She returned to being his wife and queen of the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 returned	nsubj
2	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 wife	case
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 wife	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 returned	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 queen	cc
8	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 queen	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	She						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	gerund						to his wife and queen of the palace	tree rules

Option 4

She was freed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 freed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 freed	aux:pass
3	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	free	past · passive		She					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source

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