Exam question 3 · Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe,…

Why do the sisters conceal Trembling inside a closet?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sisters · What happens: do, conceal, tremble · To what, where: closet

This is exam question 3 of lesson 2012 «Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe, a hunt for its owner, and a girl locked in a closet» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 conceal	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisters	det
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 conceal	nsubj
5	conceal	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 conceal	xcomp
7	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 closet	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 closet	det
9	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Trembling	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 conceal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	do	present	the sisters not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	conceal	present	the sisters		tree rules
3	tremble	gerund	the sisters not said here	a closet	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside closet=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

so the princes wouldn't see her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	6 see	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princes	det
3	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	would	the princes	her = she					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 2

because the princes wanted to marry her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	4 wanted	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princes	det
3	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 marry	mark
6	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the princes						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	the princes not said here	her = she					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

to keep her safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	obj
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		her = she				safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to prevent her being seen by the princes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 prevent	mark
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 seen	advcl
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 prevent	obj
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 seen	aux:pass
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 princes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princes	det
8	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent	to-infinitive	the princes not said here	her = she					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Theme
2	see	gerund · passive	the princes						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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