Exam question 3 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Seven Princesses, part 6: the pome…

Which of the following describes Balna's response to the Magician's proposal of marriage?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: marriage · What happens: follow, describe, propose · To what, where: response

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1822 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Seven Princesses, part 6: the pomelo tree is cut down, the girls are left in the jungle, and Balna is turned into a dog» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 describes	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 describes	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 describes	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 describes	nsubj
5	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Balna	Balna	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 response	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Balna	case
8	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 describes	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 proposal	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Magician	det
11	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 proposal	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Magician	case
13	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 response	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 marriage	case
15	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 proposal	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe	present		Balna's response	to the Magician's proposal of marriage	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent response=Theme to proposal=be'
3	propose		marriage			nom proposal «communication intransitive»: of=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 right answer

She refused, to remain with her son

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 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 remain	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	5 remain	mark
5	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refused	ccomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 son	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remain	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	She						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not remain	to-infinitive	She not said here					with her son	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She accepted his proposal gladly

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 accepted	nsubj
2	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 proposal	nmod:poss
4	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accepted	obj
5	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	2 accepted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	past	She	his proposal				gladly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme
2	propose		his = he						nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

She agreed happily

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 agreed	nsubj
2	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	happily	happily	ADV	_	2 agreed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	She					happily property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She ran off with the Fakir

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 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 Fakir	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fakir	det
6	Fakir	Fakir	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	She					with the Fakir	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with fakir=Material

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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