Exam question 4 · pg641, Fet-Fruners, part 58: the princess passes the trap,…

Determine the precise reason advanced by the pages for their petition that the princess should attend to the kitchen.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, princess, pages · What happens: determine, advance, attend, petition · To what, where: precise reason, petition

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1807 «pg641, Fet-Fruners, part 58: the princess passes the trap, is sent off with Sunlight, and sails to find Iliane» 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
5	advanced	advance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 pages	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pages	det
8	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 advanced	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 petition	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 petition	nmod:poss
11	petition	petition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 advanced	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 attend	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 princess	det
14	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 attend	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 attend	aux
16	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 petition	acl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 kitchen	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 kitchen	det
19	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 attend	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the precise reason		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic
2	advance	participle		the precise reason not said here	by the pages; for pages's petition goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for petition=Goal
3	attend	should	the princess	pages's petition not said here	to the kitchen	vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme petition=Goal
4	petition		pages = page			nom petition «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

The cooks were ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cooks	det
2	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ill	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	cop
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The cooks had become intoxicated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cooks	det
2	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	intoxicated	intoxicate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past · perfect	the cooks						tree rules
2	intoxicate	participle	the cooks not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The cooks had fallen asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cooks	det
2	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fallen	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fallen	aux
4	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fallen	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	the cooks					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They were drunk

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 drunk	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drunk	aux:pass
3	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past · passive		They					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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