Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fiordelisa climbs, is…

What was the King's response upon beholding the emerald bracelets?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: response · What happens: be, behold · To what, where: emerald bracelets

This is exam question 4 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 response	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 King	case
6	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	8 beholding	mark
8	beholding	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 response	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bracelets	det
10	emerald	emerald	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bracelets	compound
11	bracelets	bracelet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 beholding	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the King's response						tree rules
2	behold	gerund	the King's response not said here	the emerald bracelets					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bracelet=Stimulus

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

he frowned and shook his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 frowned	nsubj
2	frowned	frown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 shook	cc
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 frowned	conj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frown	past	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shake	past	he not said here	his head					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he turned pale and sighed deeply

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turned	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sighed	cc
5	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
6	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	5 sighed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	he					pale property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	sigh	past	he not said here					deeply property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he laughed and clapped loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 clapped	cc
4	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 clapped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	clap	past	he not said here					loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

he turned pale, trembled, and sighed deeply for a long time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turned	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 trembled	punct
5	trembled	tremble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pale	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sighed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sighed	cc
8	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
9	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	8 sighed	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 time	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sighed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	he		pale property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	tremble	participle	he not said here			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sigh	past	he not said here	time	deeply property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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