Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimond brings home the r…
What was Rosimond's stated motive for relinquishing the enchanted ring?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stated motive · What happens: state, be, relinquish, enchant · To what, where: stated motive, enchanted ring
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1895 «Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimond brings home the real Prince and returns the ring to the Fairy» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 motive | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 motive | cop |
| 3 | Rosimond | Rosimond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 motive | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Rosimond | case |
| 5 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 motive | amod |
| 6 | motive | motive | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 relinquishing | mark |
| 8 | relinquishing | relinquish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 motive | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ring | det |
| 10 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ring | amod |
| 11 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 relinquishing | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 motive | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | Rosimond's stated motive | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | relinquish | gerund | Rosimond's stated motive not said here | the enchanted ring | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 4 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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
fear of the King
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 King | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 fear | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | the King | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2
greed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
pride
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
fear of misuse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 misuse | case |
| 3 | misuse | misuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 fear | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | misuse | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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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