Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Swineherd, part 1: a poor Prince is…

In what circumstances did the Emperor's daughter reject the rose-tree gift presented to her by the impoverished Prince?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: circumstances, daughter · What happens: do, reject, present, impoverish · To what, where: rose tree gift, daughter

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1733 «Andersen's Tales, The Swineherd, part 1: a poor Prince is refused by the Princess and becomes a swineherd» 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Emperor	det
6	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Emperor	case
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reject	nsubj
9	reject	reject	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gift	det
11	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gift	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 rose	punct
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gift	compound
14	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reject	obj
15	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 gift	acl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 presented	obl
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 Prince	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Prince	det
20	impoverished	impoverish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 Prince	amod
21	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 presented	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	circumstances				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	reject	present	the Emperor's daughter	the rose tree gift			vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme
3	present	participle		the rose tree gift not said here	daughter	by the impoverished Prince	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
4	impoverish	participle					tree rules

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

When it was fake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 fake	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fake	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fake	cop
4	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					fake property	tree rules

Option 2

Never at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Never	obl

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

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

When she perceived it to be artificial

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 perceived	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 perceived	nsubj
3	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 perceived	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 artificial	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 artificial	cop
7	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 perceived	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	she	it					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	is	to-infinitive	she not said here					artificial property	tree rules

Option 4

Once she saw it was not truly alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Once	once	SCONJ	_	3 saw	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 alive	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 alive	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 alive	advmod
7	truly	truly	ADV	_	8 alive	advmod
8	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saw	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	she						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is	past	it					alive, truly property	tree rules

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