Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 27: a little monkey sho…

exam: Which was the principal reason for the King's distress at the close of the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: exam, King · What happens: be, distress · To what, where: principal reason, close

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1890 «Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 27: a little monkey shows the Prince a rock of gold, and the Princess Sabella is found to have no heart» 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	exam	exam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 reason	punct
3	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 reason	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reason	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reason	det
6	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reason	amod
7	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 exam	acl:relcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 distress	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 distress	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 King	case
12	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reason	nmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 close	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 close	det
15	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reason	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 passage	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 passage	det
18	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 close	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 exam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	exam	the principal reason		the close of the passage		for the King's distress	tree rules
2	distress		the King						nom distress «feeling transitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

The death of the old Queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 death	det
2	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Queen	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Queen	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Queen	amod
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 death	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die		the old Queen						nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

The discovery that Sabella had no heart and was not truly alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 discovery	det
2	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
4	Sabella	Sabella	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 heart	det
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 alive	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 alive	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 alive	advmod
11	truly	truly	ADV	_	12 alive	advmod
12	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 had	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the discovery	no heart					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
2	not is	past	the discovery not said here					alive, truly property	tree rules

Option 3

The discovery that Sabella had no heart, and his wife's anger at the old woman

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 discovery	det
2	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
4	Sabella	Sabella	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 heart	det
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 anger	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 anger	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 anger	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 wife	case
13	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 woman	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 anger	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the discovery	no heart				Sabella's wife's anger at the old woman obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
2	anger		Sabella's wife					at the old woman	nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent at=obl

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The discovery that Sabella had no heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 discovery	det
2	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
4	Sabella	Sabella	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 heart	det
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the discovery	no heart					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient

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