Exam question 3 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bride and the Helmet: the helmet…

How did the assembled guests respond to the appearance of the bride?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: assembled guests · What happens: do, assemble, respond

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1798 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bride and the Helmet: the helmet bursts open and the wedding ends happily» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guests	det
4	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 guests	amod
5	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 respond	nsubj
6	respond	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 appearance	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 appearance	det
9	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 respond	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 bride	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bride	det
12	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 appearance	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	assemble	participle			vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	respond speech: other	present	the assembled guests	to the appearance of the bride	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to appearance=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

They were amazed at the feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 amazed	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 amazed	aux:pass
3	amazed	amaze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 feast	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 feast	det
6	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 amazed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	amaze	past · passive		They		the feast			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They were astonished by her beauty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 astonished	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 astonished	aux:pass
3	astonished	astonish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 beauty	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 beauty	nmod:poss
6	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 astonished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	astonish	past · passive	her beauty	They					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer

Option 3

They admired her gown greatly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 admired	nsubj
2	admired	admire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 gown	nmod:poss
4	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 admired	obj
5	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	2 admired	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	admire	past	They	her gown				greatly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gown=Stimulus

Option 4

They were so astonished that they forgot to eat or drink anything at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 astonished	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 astonished	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 astonished	advmod
4	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 forgot	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 forgot	nsubj
7	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 astonished	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 eat	mark
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 forgot	xcomp
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 drink	cc
11	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 eat	conj
12	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 drink	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 drink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	They			astonished property	tree rules
2	forget	past	they				tree rules
3	not eat	to-infinitive	they not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	infinitive	they not said here	anything	all		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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