Exam question 2 · Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, part 1: Rosimond is…

Of what deceit is Rosimond falsely accused by his elder brother Bramintho?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: elder brother · What happens: be, accuse · To what, where: deceit Rosimond

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1894 «Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, part 1: Rosimond is cast out, gets a magic ring, and spies on the wicked King» 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	deceit	deceit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Rosimond	compound
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Rosimond	cop
5	Rosimond	Rosimond	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 accused	nsubj:pass
6	falsely	falsely	ADV	_	7 accused	advmod
7	accused	accuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 what	acl:relcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 brother	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brother	nmod:poss
10	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 brother	amod
11	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 accused	obl:agent
12	Bramintho	Bramintho	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 brother	appos
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		deceit Rosimond					tree rules
2	accuse	participle · passive	Rosimond's elder brother	deceit Rosimond				falsely property	vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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

Theft of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 gold	case
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Theft	nmod

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

Option 2

Stealing the royal crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crown	det
3	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crown	amod
4	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stealing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund		the royal crown					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crown=Theme

Option 3

Lying about a feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	4 feast	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 feast	det
4	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund						about a feast	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about feast=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Plotting to poison their father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plotting	plot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 poison	mark
3	poison	poison	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Plotting	xcomp
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poison	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plot	gerund							tree rules
2	poison	to-infinitive		their father					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient

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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