Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor: the bees steal the twelve ma…

For what purpose did Paridamie divide the character of Rosanella?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Paridamie · What happens: divide · To what, where: character

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1876 «Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor: the bees steal the twelve maidens, and Rosanella returns to marry the Prince» 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 divide	obj
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 divide	aux
5	Paridamie	Paridamie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 divide	nsubj
6	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 character	det
8	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 divide	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Rosanella	case
10	Rosanella	Rosanella	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 character	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 divide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	divide	past · do-support	Paridamie	the character of Rosanella					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

In order that every fragment might separately captivate the Prince and his entire royal household

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 order	case
2	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 captivate	obj
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 fragment	det
5	fragment	fragment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 captivate	nsubj
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 captivate	aux
7	separately	separately	ADV	_	8 captivate	advmod
8	captivate	captivate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 order	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Prince	det
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 captivate	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 household	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 household	nmod:poss
13	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 household	amod
14	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 household	amod
15	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Prince	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	captivate	might	every fragment	order				separately property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer prince=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

So that each of the twelve parts could individually enchant the young Prince at court

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	10 enchant	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 could	mark
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 could	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 parts	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 parts	det
6	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 parts	nummod
7	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 each	nmod
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 enchant	aux
9	individually	individually	ADV	_	10 enchant	advmod
10	enchant	enchant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Prince	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Prince	amod
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 enchant	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 court	case
15	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 enchant	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enchant	could		the young Prince		court		individually property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus prince=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

So that each part might charm Prince Mirliflor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 charm	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 charm	mark
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 part	det
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 charm	nsubj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 charm	aux
6	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 charm	appos
8	Mirliflor	Mirliflor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Prince	flat

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

Option 4

So each piece could tempt Mirliflor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 tempt	advmod
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 piece	det
3	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tempt	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tempt	aux
5	tempt	tempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Mirliflor	Mirliflor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tempt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tempt	could	each piece		Mirliflor				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirliflor=Recipient

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