Exam question 2 · Fairy Gifts, Sylvia and the Flower Fairy, part 15: Sylvia…

For what reason did the city ultimately revolt against the young Emir?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reason · What happens: do, revolt · To what, where: city

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1878 «Fairy Gifts, Sylvia and the Flower Fairy, part 15: Sylvia visits three princesses and reports on each» 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	root	root
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 city	det
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	8 revolt	advmod
8	revolt	revolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
9	against	against	ADP	_	12 Emir	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Emir	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Emir	amod
12	Emir	Emir	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 revolt	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	reason	the city					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Eventuality
2	revolt	present	reason not said here					against the young Emir; ultimately property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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

because he raised the taxes too high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	3 raised	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 raised	nsubj
3	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 taxes	det
5	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 raised	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 high	advmod
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 raised	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past	he	the taxes					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Theme

Option 2

because of his cruelty to the poor and his pride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 cruelty	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 because	fixed
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cruelty	nmod:poss
4	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 poor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 poor	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cruelty	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pride	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pride	nmod:poss
10	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poor	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

because of his misgovernment and his neglect of the Fowler

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 misgovernment	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 because	fixed
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 misgovernment	nmod:poss
4	misgovernment	misgovernment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 neglect	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 neglect	nmod:poss
7	neglect	neglect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 misgovernment	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Fowler	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Fowler	det
10	Fowler	fowler	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 neglect	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	misgovern		his = he						nom misgovernment «act transitive»: poss=agent
2	neglect		his = he	the Fowler					nom neglect «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

Option 4

because of taxes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 taxes	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 because	fixed
3	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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