Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 21: Celandine is sco…

In what manner does Featherhead respond when the portrait is presented to him by the Fairy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Featherhead, Fairy · What happens: respond, present · To what, where: manner, portrait, Featherhead

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1884 «Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 21: Celandine is scorned and meets a grumpy old hag» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 respond	obl
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 respond	aux
5	Featherhead	featherhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 respond	nsubj
6	respond	respond	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 presented	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 portrait	det
9	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 presented	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 presented	aux:pass
11	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 respond	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 presented	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 Fairy	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Fairy	det
16	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 presented	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 respond	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	respond speech: other	present · do-support	Featherhead			what manner			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	present	present · passive	the Fairy	the portrait	Featherhead				vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to he=Recipient

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

He stares at it and blushes, then looks up quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stares	nsubj
2	stares	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stares	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 blushes	cc
6	blushes	blush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stares	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looks	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 looks	advmod
9	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stares	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 looks	compound:prt
11	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	9 looks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	stare	present	He		at it	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
2	blush	present	He not said here			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look up	present	He not said here	then	quickly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He gazes at it, transfixed, and cannot look away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gazes	nsubj
2	gazes	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gazes	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 transfixed	punct
6	transfixed	transfix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gazes	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 look	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 look	cc
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 look	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 look	advmod
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gazes	parataxis
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	gaze	present	He	at it	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
2	transfix	participle	He not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	not look away	can		away property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

He studies it closely and smiles softly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 studies	nsubj
2	studies	study	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 studies	obj
4	closely	closely	ADV	_	2 studies	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 smiles	cc
6	smiles	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 studies	conj
7	softly	softly	ADV	_	6 smiles	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	study	present	He	it				closely property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	smile	present	He not said here					softly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He gazes at it, transfixed, and cannot look away from it for the rest of the day

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gazes	nsubj
2	gazes	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gazes	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 transfixed	punct
6	transfixed	transfix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gazes	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 look	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 look	cc
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 look	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 look	advmod
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gazes	parataxis
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 look	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 look	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 rest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rest	det
17	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 look	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 day	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	gaze	present	He	at it	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
2	transfix	participle	He not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	not look away	can		for the rest of the day; from it; away property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from it=Theme

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