Exam question 3 · Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince es…

What did the princess believe would occur, as declared in the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: do, believe, occur, declare · To what, where: narrative

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1813 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince escapes his father's trap, forgets his bride, and wins her back» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 occur	nsubj
5	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 princess	acl
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 occur	aux
7	occur	occur	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 did	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 declared	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 declared	mark
10	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 occur	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 narrative	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 narrative	det
13	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 declared	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	believe	infinitive	the princess not said here		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	occur	would	the princess		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	declare speech: other	participle	the princess not said here	the narrative	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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

Her death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 death	nmod:poss
2	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die		Her = she						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

That the prince would forget her and marry another girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 prince	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forget	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 forget	aux
5	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forget	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 marry	cc
8	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 forget	conj
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	that prince	her = she					tree rules
2	marry	infinitive	that prince not said here	another girl					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient

Option 3

That the king would scold her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 king	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scold	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 scold	aux
5	scold	scold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	would	that king	her = she					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

That the prince would forget her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 prince	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forget	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 forget	aux
5	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	that prince	her = she					tree rules

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