Exam question 4 · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' ques…

Specify the manner in which Prince Vivien proceeded when hunting the moles upon the meadows.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Prince · What happens: specify, proceed, hunt · To what, where: manner, moles, meadows

This is exam question 4 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	Specify	specify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Specify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 proceeded	obl
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 proceeded	nsubj
7	Vivien	Vivien	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Prince	flat
8	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Specify	parataxis
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 hunting	advmod
10	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 proceeded	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moles	det
12	moles	mole	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hunting	obj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 meadows	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 meadows	det
15	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hunting	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Specify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	specify	imperative	you not said here	the manner		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent manner=Theme
2	proceed	past	Prince			vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	hunt	gerund	Prince not said here	the moles	the meadows	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mole=Theme upon meadow=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

on horseback

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	2 horseback	case
2	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

slowly, upon tip-toe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 slowly	punct
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 toe	case
4	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 toe	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 tip	punct
6	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 slowly	obl

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

Option 4

silently, on his heels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	silently	silently	ADV	_	5 heels	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 silently	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 heels	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heels	nmod:poss
5	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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