Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, Mannikin, part 29: a mocked Ambassador, a war,…

Which character's pride is identified in the passage as the cause of his death?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: character, pride · What happens: identify, pride, cause, die · To what, where: pride, passage, death

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1892 «Fairy Book, Mannikin, part 29: a mocked Ambassador, a war, and Brandatimor defeated» 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 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pride	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 character	case
4	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identified	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 identified	aux:pass
6	identified	identify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 passage	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 passage	det
9	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identified	obl
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 cause	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cause	det
12	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 passage	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 death	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 death	nmod:poss
15	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cause	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 identified	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	present · passive		which character's pride	the passage as the cause of pride's death	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	pride		which character			nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
3	cause			pride's death		nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient
4	die		pride			nom death «event 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 · ← Mova's choice

The Ambassador of the Farda-Kinbras court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Ambassador	det
2	Ambassador	Ambassador	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 court	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 court	det
5	Farda	Farda	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Kinbras	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Farda	punct
7	Kinbras	Kinbras	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 court	compound
8	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ambassador	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Brandatimor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brandatimor	Brandatimor	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Prince Fadasse of Farda-Kinbras

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fadasse	nmod:desc
2	Fadasse	Fadasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Farda	case
4	Farda	Farda	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fadasse	nmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Kinbras	punct
6	Kinbras	Kinbras	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fadasse	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Mannikin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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