Exam question 4 · Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu, part 1: the prince breaks…

Upon what condition did the king and queen fear for their own lives?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: do · To what, where: king

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1840 «Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu, part 1: the prince breaks the pitchers at the well» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fear	cc
8	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fear	compound
9	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 king	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 lives	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 lives	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lives	amod
13	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	condition	the king and queen fear				for king's own lives	tree rules

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

touching the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 touching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	gerund		the boy					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boy=Co-Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

hearing his name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 name	nmod:poss
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hearing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund		his name					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
2	name		his = he						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

seeing his face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 face	nmod:poss
3	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 seeing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund		his face					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus

Option 4

his voice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 voice	nmod:poss
2	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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