Exam question 2 · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' ques…

Pursuant to the narrative, state the purpose for which the Fairies caused the lovers to appear ill.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fairies, lovers · What happens: cause, appear · To what, where: lovers

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1920 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' quests end in joy» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	8 purpose	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 narrative	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrative	det
4	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pursuant	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 state	punct
6	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 narrative	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 purpose	det
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 caused	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Fairies	det
12	Fairies	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 caused	nsubj
13	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 purpose	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lovers	det
15	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 caused	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 appear	mark
17	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 caused	xcomp
18	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 appear	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 purpose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past	the Fairies	the lovers				for the purpose	tree rules
2	appear	to-infinitive	the lovers not said here					ill property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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

to test whether they truly loved each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 test	mark
2	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 loved	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loved	nsubj
5	truly	truly	ADV	_	6 loved	advmod
6	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 test	ccomp
7	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	6 loved	obj
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive							tree rules
2	love	past	they	each				truly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to test whether they truly loved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 test	mark
2	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 loved	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loved	nsubj
5	truly	truly	ADV	_	6 loved	advmod
6	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 test	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	love	past	they					truly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

to see if the lovers would give up the castle at once and flee

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	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 give	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lovers	det
5	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 give	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 see	ccomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 give	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 castle	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 give	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 flee	cc
14	flee	flee	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 see	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	give up a condition, not said to happen	would	the lovers	the castle	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Source
3	flee	infinitive			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

to test whether they were wise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 test	mark
2	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 wise	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wise	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wise	cop
6	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 test	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	they					wise property	tree rules

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