Exam question 4 · Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom m…

What was the outcome of the princess's second laugh?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: outcome, princess · What happens: be, laugh

This is exam question 4 of lesson 2021 «Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom makes the princess laugh twice and sends off the wolf» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 outcome	det
4	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 laugh	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laugh	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 princess	case
9	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 laugh	amod
10	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outcome	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the outcome of the princess's second laugh						tree rules
2	laugh		the princess						nom laugh «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Tom claimed two halves of her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 claimed	nsubj
2	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 halves	nummod
4	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 claimed	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 halves	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	past	Tom	two halves of her					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent half=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The king gave him a kiss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kiss	det
6	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the king	a kiss	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kiss=Theme

Option 3

Tom claimed two halves of her, and the whole court cheered in the hall

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 claimed	nsubj
2	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 halves	nummod
4	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 claimed	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 halves	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cheered	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cheered	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 court	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 court	amod
11	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cheered	nsubj
12	cheered	cheer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 claimed	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hall	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hall	det
15	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cheered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	past	Tom	two halves of her					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent half=Topic
2	cheer	participle	the whole court			the hall			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Tom claimed two halves of her and the king gave his blessing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 claimed	nsubj
2	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 halves	nummod
4	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 claimed	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 halves	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 claimed	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 blessing	nmod:poss
12	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	claim speech: other	past	Tom	two halves of her	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent half=Topic
2	give	past	the king	king's blessing	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme
3	bless		king		nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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