Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 21: Celandine is sco…

What is the principal function of the old woman in the final part of this extract?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: principal function · What happens: be

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 function	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 function	amod
5	function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 woman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 function	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 part	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 part	det
12	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 part	amod
13	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woman	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 extract	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 extract	det
16	extract	extract	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 part	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the principal function of the old woman in the final part of this extract						tree rules

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 steals a small coin

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 steals	nsubj
2	steals	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coin	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coin	amod
5	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 steals	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	present	She	a small coin					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coin=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She exploits Celandine's distress and obtains her rich garments

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 exploits	nsubj
2	exploits	exploit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 distress	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Celandine	case
5	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exploits	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 obtains	cc
7	obtains	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 exploits	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 garments	nmod:poss
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 garments	amod
10	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 obtains	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	exploit	present	She	Celandine's distress	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distress=Theme
2	obtain	present	She not said here	Celandine's rich garments	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset garment=Theme
3	distress		Celandine		nom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

She takes advantage of Celandine's sorrow to win her fine robe

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 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 sorrow	case
5	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sorrow	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Celandine	case
7	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 advantage	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 win	mark
9	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 takes	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 robe	nmod:poss
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 robe	amod
12	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 win	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	take	present	She	advantage of Celandine's sorrow	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme
2	win	to-infinitive	She not said here	Celandine's fine robe	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Eventuality
3	sorrow		Celandine		nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

She helps Celandine home

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 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Celandine	celandine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 helps	obj
4	home	home	ADV	_	2 helps	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	She	Celandine				home property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent celandine=Beneficiary

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