Exam question 3 · Fairy Gifts, Sylvia and the Flower Fairy, part 15: Sylvia…

Which gift was bestowed upon the Princess Cynthia, and what consequence did it produce?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: consequence · What happens: bestow, produce · To what, where: gift

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 gift	det
2	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bestowed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bestowed	aux:pass
4	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 Cynthia	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Cynthia	det
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Cynthia	compound
8	Cynthia	Cynthia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bestowed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 produce	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 produce	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 produce	obj
12	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 produce	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 produce	aux
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 produce	nsubj
15	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bestowed	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bestowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bestow	past · passive		which gift				upon the Princess Cynthia	tree rules
2	produce	past · do-support	consequence						vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Result

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 gift of wit, which made her clever but her lovers jealous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gift	det
2	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wit	case
4	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gift	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	obj
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 made	xcomp
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 jealous	cc
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 lovers	nmod:poss
12	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 jealous	nsubj
13	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 clever	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the gift of wit	her = she				clever property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product
2	gift			wit					nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

the gift of eloquence, which made her talk endlessly and bore everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gift	det
2	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 eloquence	case
4	eloquence	eloquence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gift	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	obj
9	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 made	xcomp
10	endlessly	endlessly	ADV	_	9 talk	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bore	cc
12	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	conj
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 bore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the gift of eloquence	her = she		tree rules
2	talk	infinitive	her = she not said here		endlessly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bear	past	the gift of eloquence not said here	everyone		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient
4	gift			eloquence		nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

the gift of singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gift	det
2	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 singing	case
4	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gift	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gift			singing					nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the gift of pleasing, which made her insincere and her lovers disdainful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gift	det
2	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 pleasing	case
4	pleasing	pleasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gift	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	obj
9	insincere	insincere	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lovers	cc
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 lovers	nmod:poss
12	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 insincere	conj
13	disdainful	disdainful	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 insincere	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the gift of pleasing	insincere and gift's lovers and disdainful	her = she				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary insincere=Product
2	gift			pleasing					nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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