Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fiordelisa climbs, is…

What was the principal impediment encountered by the Queen upon the ivory hill?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, encounter · To what, where: principal impediment

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1869 «Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fiordelisa climbs, is carried by doves, and sells the bracelets» 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	5 impediment	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 impediment	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 impediment	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 impediment	amod
5	impediment	impediment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	encountered	encounter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 impediment	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 Queen	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Queen	det
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 encountered	obl
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 hill	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hill	det
12	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hill	compound
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 encountered	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 impediment	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal impediment					tree rules
2	encounter	participle		the principal impediment not said here				by the Queen; upon the ivory hill	vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ← Mova's choice

the thick morning fog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fog	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fog	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fog	compound
4	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the hill's slippery ivory surface and its enormous steepness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hill	det
2	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 surface	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 hill	case
4	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 surface	amod
5	ivory	ivory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 surface	amod
6	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 steepness	cc
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 steepness	nmod:poss
9	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 steepness	amod
10	steepness	steepness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 surface	conj

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

Option 3

the dragon guarding the summit and the sharp ivory thorns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dragon	det
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	guarding	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 dragon	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 summit	det
5	summit	summit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guarding	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thorns	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thorns	det
8	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thorns	amod
9	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thorns	compound
10	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dragon	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	gerund	the dragon and the sharp ivory thorns not said here	the summit					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summit=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

its excessive steepness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 steepness	nmod:poss
2	excessive	excessive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 steepness	amod
3	steepness	steepness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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