Exam question 4 · Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 28: M…

Which advice did Prince Mannikin tender to the Princess in response to the Ambassador's demand?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: advice, Ambassador · What happens: do, demand · To what, where: Mannikin tender, response

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1891 «Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 28: Mannikin wins the joust and the Ambassador's insolent letter arrives» 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 advice	det
2	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Mannikin	nmod:desc
5	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tender	compound
6	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Princess	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 response	case
11	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 demand	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Ambassador	det
14	Ambassador	Ambassador	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 demand	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Ambassador	case
16	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 response	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which advice	Mannikin tender		response to the Ambassador's demand		to the Princess	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tender=Eventuality
2	demand		the Ambassador						nom demand «communication 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

to send the Ambassador home early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 send	mark
2	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Ambassador	det
4	Ambassador	Ambassador	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 send	obj
5	home	home	ADV	_	2 send	advmod
6	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 send	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	to-infinitive		the Ambassador				early, home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ambassador=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

to delay her answer until the feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 delay	mark
2	delay	delay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 answer	nmod:poss
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 delay	obj
5	until	until	ADP	_	7 feast	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 feast	det
7	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 delay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	delay	to-infinitive		her answer			until the feast		vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent answer=Source
2	answer		her = she						nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

to refuse her answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 refuse	mark
2	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 answer	nmod:poss
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 refuse	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	to-infinitive		her answer					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
2	answer		her = she						nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to defer her answer until after the grand entry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 defer	mark
2	defer	defer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 answer	nmod:poss
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 defer	obj
5	until	until	ADP	_	9 entry	case
6	after	after	ADP	_	9 entry	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 entry	det
8	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 entry	amod
9	entry	entry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 defer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	defer	to-infinitive		her answer			until the grand entry		vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent answer=Source
2	answer		her = she						nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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