Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla,…

Why did Queen Frivola conceal her daughter Potentilla from the court?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queen · What happens: conceal · To what, where: daughter, court

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1879 «Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 1: Narcissus finds the hidden princess and falls in love» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 conceal	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 conceal	aux
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 conceal	nsubj
4	Frivola	Frivola	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Queen	flat
5	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 daughter	nmod:poss
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conceal	obj
8	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 daughter	appos
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 court	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 court	det
11	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conceal	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 conceal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal	past · do-support	Queen	Queen's daughter		the court			vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient from court=Beneficiary

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 she feared the Princess would be less admired than herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 feared	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feared	nsubj
3	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 admired	nsubj:pass
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 admired	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 admired	aux:pass
8	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 admired	advmod
9	admired	admire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 feared	ccomp
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 herself	case
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 admired	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	she						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	admire	would · passive		the Princess				than Princess; less property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Because she feared the Princess would be more admired than herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 feared	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feared	nsubj
3	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 admired	nsubj:pass
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 admired	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 admired	aux:pass
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 admired	advmod
9	admired	admire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 feared	ccomp
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 herself	case
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 admired	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	she						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	admire	would · passive		the Princess				than Princess	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 3

Because she feared the Princess would be more admired than herself and would take the court away

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 feared	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feared	nsubj
3	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 admired	nsubj:pass
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 admired	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 admired	aux:pass
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 admired	advmod
9	admired	admire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 feared	ccomp
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 herself	case
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 admired	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 take	cc
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 take	aux
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 feared	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 court	det
16	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
17	away	away	ADV	_	14 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fear	past	she			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	admire	would · passive		the Princess	than Princess	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	take away	would	she not said here	the court	away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme

Option 4

Because the old Fairy had told her that the Princess would one day rule the entire kingdom and rob her

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 told	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fairy	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Fairy	amod
4	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 rule	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 rule	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 rule	aux
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 day	nummod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rule	compound
14	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 kingdom	det
16	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 kingdom	amod
17	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rob	cc
19	rob	rob	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 rob	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	the old Fairy		the entire kingdom	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient kingdom=Topic
2	rule	would	the Princess			tree rules
3	rob	infinitive	the old Fairy not said here	Princess		vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Source

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