Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 4: the Blue Bird brings g…

Upon what grounds did the Fairy Mazilla condemn the Blue Bird to his avian form?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bird · What happens: ground, do, condemn, form · To what, where: Fairy Mazilla, Blue Bird

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1867 «Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 4: the Blue Bird brings gifts, the Queen hunts for proof, and a spy is set to watch Fiordelisa» 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	SCONJ	_	3 grounds	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 grounds	nsubj
3	grounds	ground	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 condemn	advcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grounds	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mazilla	det
6	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Mazilla	compound
7	Mazilla	Mazilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	condemn	condemn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Bird	det
10	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Bird	amod
11	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 condemn	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 form	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 form	nmod:poss
14	avian	avian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 form	amod
15	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 condemn	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 condemn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ground	present				tree rules
2	do	past		the Fairy Mazilla		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mazilla=Eventuality
3	condemn	present		the Blue Bird	to Bird's avian form	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
4	form		Bird			nom form «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

For stealing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	2 stealing	case
2	stealing	stealing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Upon his refusal to wed Turritella

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 refusal	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 refusal	nmod:poss
3	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wed	mark
5	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 refusal	acl
6	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wed	to-infinitive		Turritella					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turritella=Patient
2	refuse		his = he						nom refusal «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

For his lies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 lies	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 lies	nmod:poss
3	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie		his = he						nom lie «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

For his refusal to wed Fiordelisa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	SCONJ	_	5 wed	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 refusal	nmod:poss
3	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wed	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wed	mark
5	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wed	to-infinitive	his refusal	Fiordelisa					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiordelisa=Patient
2	refuse		his = he						nom refusal «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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