Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, Princess Rosette, part 56: the Princess runs…

Which account correctly states the reason the Princess fled the farm by boat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: account, Princess · What happens: state, flee · To what, where: reason, farm

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1919 «Fairy Tales, Princess Rosette, part 56: the Princess runs off in the King's boat and meets the stately lady of the birds» 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 account	det
2	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 states	nsubj
3	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	4 states	advmod
4	states	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reason	det
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 states	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Princess	det
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fled	nsubj
9	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reason	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 farm	det
11	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fled	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 boat	case
13	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fled	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 states	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	present	which account	the reason				correctly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent reason=Topic
2	flee	past	the Princess	the farm				by boat	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme farm=Initial_Location

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

She wanted to be a sailor on the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 sailor	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sailor	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sailor	det
6	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sailor	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	She						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	a sailor		the river			tree rules

Option 2

To see the sea.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive		the sea					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sea=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She feared punishment from the Queen for her failures

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feared	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 Queen	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Queen	det
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 feared	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 failures	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 failures	nmod:poss
9	failures	failure	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	She	punishment				from the Queen; for her failures	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer punishment=Stimulus for failure=Attribute
2	fail		her = she						nom failure «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

She feared the Fairy would scold her for sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fairy	det
4	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scold	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 scold	aux
6	scold	scold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feared	ccomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scold	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 sleeping	case
9	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	She						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	scold	would	the Fairy	her = she				for sleeping	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for sleeping=Attribute

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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