Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 27: a little monkey sho…

exam: What was the outcome when the Fairies beheld the Princess Sabella in her presence?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: exam, Fairies · What happens: be, behold · To what, where: outcome, Princess Sabella, presence

This is exam question 4 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	_	6 outcome	punct
3	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 outcome	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 outcome	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 outcome	det
6	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 exam	conj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 beheld	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Fairies	det
9	Fairies	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 beheld	nsubj
10	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 outcome	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Sabella	det
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Sabella	compound
13	Sabella	Sabella	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 beheld	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 presence	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 presence	nmod:poss
16	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beheld	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 exam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	exam and the outcome	the outcome					tree rules
2	behold	past	the Fairies	the Princess Sabella		Sabella's presence			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sabella=Stimulus

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

They cried out that she had no heart and called for the King at once

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 cried	compound:prt
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	advcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 heart	det
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 called	cc
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cried	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 King	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 called	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 cried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	past	They			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	have	past	she	no heart		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
3	call	participle	They not said here		for the King	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for king=Recipient

Option 2

They praised her singing and went home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 praised	nsubj
2	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 singing	nmod:poss
4	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 praised	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 praised	conj
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	praise	past	They	her singing		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent singing=Theme
2	go	past	They not said here		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sing		her = she			nom singing «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They cried out that she had no heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 cried	compound:prt
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	advcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 heart	det
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	past	They						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	she	no heart					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient

Option 4

They cried out that she had no heart, and then they all fainted on the floor

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 cried	compound:prt
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	advcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 heart	det
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fainted	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fainted	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 fainted	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fainted	nsubj
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 fainted	advmod
14	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	parataxis
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 floor	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 floor	det
17	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fainted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	past	They					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	she	no heart				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
3	faint	past	they		the floor	then	all property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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