Exam question 4 · Fairy Gifts, Sylvia and the Flower Fairy, part 15: Sylvia…

How did Sylvia describe the situation of the Princess Iris following her illness?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sylvia · What happens: describe, follow · To what, where: situation, illness

This is exam question 4 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 describe	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 describe	aux
3	Sylvia	Sylvia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 describe	nsubj
4	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 situation	det
6	situation	situation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describe	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Iris	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Iris	det
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Iris	compound
10	Iris	Iris	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 situation	nmod
11	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 describe	advcl
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 illness	nmod:poss
13	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 following	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	past · do-support	Sylvia	the situation of the Princess Iris					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent situation=Theme
2	follow	gerund	Sylvia not said here	Sylvia's illness					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Theme

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

she lost her beauty, and she wept in the garden every single night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 beauty	nmod:poss
4	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wept	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wept	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wept	nsubj
8	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 garden	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 garden	det
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wept	obl
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
13	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 night	amod
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wept	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	she	her beauty					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Eventuality
2	weep	past	she				night	in the garden	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in garden=Theme

Option 2

she was sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sad	cop
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					sad property	tree rules

Option 3

her beauty was gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 beauty	nmod:poss
2	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	her beauty					gone property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

her beauty had vanished, and she despaired and begged for its return

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 beauty	nmod:poss
2	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vanished	aux
4	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 despaired	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 despaired	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 despaired	nsubj
8	despaired	despair	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vanished	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 begged	cc
10	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 despaired	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 return	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 return	nmod:poss
13	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 begged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	vanish	past · perfect	her beauty		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	despair	past	beauty		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	beg speech: request	past	beauty not said here	for its return	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for return=Topic
4	return		its = it		nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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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