Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 21: Celandine is sco…

Which action of Celandine most directly demonstrates her departure from the Leafy Palace?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: action, Celandine · What happens: demonstrate, act, depart · To what, where: departure, Leafy Palace

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 action	det
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 demonstrates	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Celandine	case
4	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 action	nmod
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 directly	advmod
6	directly	directly	ADV	_	7 demonstrates	advmod
7	demonstrates	demonstrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 departure	nmod:poss
9	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 demonstrates	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 Palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Palace	det
12	Leafy	Leafy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Palace	compound
13	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 demonstrates	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 demonstrates	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	demonstrate	present	which action of Celandine	action's departure	the Leafy Palace	directly property	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot departure=Topic
2	act		Celandine				nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent
3	depart		action				nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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

She sends a letter to the King and Queen before going

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 sends	nsubj
2	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 letter	det
4	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sends	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 King	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sends	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Queen	cc
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 King	conj
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 going	mark
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sends	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present	She	a letter	the King and Queen				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to king=Destination
2	go	gerund	She not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She leaves without bidding farewell to the King and Queen, and walks off alone into the night

The tree, 17 words

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 leaves	nsubj
2	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	without	without	SCONJ	_	4 bidding	mark
4	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 leaves	advcl
5	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bidding	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 King	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bidding	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Queen	cc
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 King	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 walks	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 walks	cc
13	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 leaves	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 walks	compound:prt
15	alone	alone	ADV	_	13 walks	advmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 night	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 night	det
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	She				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bid	gerund	She not said here	farewell		to the King and Queen	tree rules
3	walk off	present	She not said here		night	alone property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She leaves without bidding farewell to the King and Queen

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 leaves	nsubj
2	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	without	without	SCONJ	_	4 bidding	mark
4	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 leaves	advcl
5	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bidding	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 King	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bidding	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Queen	cc
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 King	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	She						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bid	gerund	She not said here	farewell				to the King and Queen	tree rules

Option 4

She leaves the valley at dawn

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 leaves	nsubj
2	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 valley	det
4	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 dawn	case
6	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	She	the valley			dawn		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valley=Theme

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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