Exam question 4 · Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lambikin is tricked int…

What hardship does the new Ranee impose upon the seven Princesses after she has taken her place in the palace?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hardship, Ranee · What happens: impose, take · To what, where: place, palace

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1821 «Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lambikin is tricked into a drum and eaten, then the Raja's daughters are starved by a cruel stepmother» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 hardship	det
2	hardship	hardship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 impose	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 impose	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Ranee	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Ranee	amod
6	Ranee	Ranee	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 impose	nsubj
7	impose	impose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 Princesses	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princesses	det
10	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 Princesses	nummod
11	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 impose	obl
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 taken	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 taken	nsubj
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 taken	aux
15	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 impose	advcl
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 place	nmod:poss
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taken	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 palace	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 palace	det
20	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taken	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 impose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	impose	present · do-support	what hardship					upon the seven Princesses	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	take	present · perfect	Ranee	Ranee's place		the palace			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in palace=Location

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 right answer

She gives them only bread and little water

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 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	iobj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 bread	advmod
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 water	cc
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bread	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	She	bread and little water	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient bread=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She makes them sleep on cold stone floors

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 floors	case
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 floors	amod
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 floors	compound
8	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	She	them = they					tree rules
2	sleep	infinitive	them = they not said here			cold stone floors			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Cruel work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 work	amod
2	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Hunger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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