Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood…

What was the principal reason the lovers gave for their misfortune?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lovers · What happens: be, give · To what, where: principal reason

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1877 «Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood, saved by the Fairy» 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 reason	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lovers	det
7	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	acl:relcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 misfortune	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 misfortune	nmod:poss
11	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal reason					tree rules
2	give	past	the lovers	the principal reason not said here				for lovers's misfortune	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent reason=Theme for misfortune=Asset

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

carelessness in their own actions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	carelessness	carelessness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 actions	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 actions	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 actions	amod
5	actions	action	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 carelessness	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act		their = they						nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

the cruelty of the Fairy and the spite of their families

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cruelty	det
2	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Fairy	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fairy	det
5	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cruelty	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spite	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spite	det
8	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cruelty	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 families	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 families	nmod:poss
11	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spite	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spite			cruelty's families					nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

negligence in their own conduct

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	negligence	negligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 conduct	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 conduct	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 conduct	amod
5	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 negligence	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conduct		their = they						nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

foolishness in their own behaviour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	foolishness	foolishness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 behaviour	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 behaviour	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 behaviour	amod
5	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 foolishness	nmod

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

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