Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1:…

What did the minister's fear of appearing incompetent ultimately induce him to do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: fear, minister · What happens: do, appear, induce, fear · To what, where: fear, him

This is exam question 3 of lesson 274 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1: a vain Emperor is fooled by two cheating weavers» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 minister	det
4	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fear	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 minister	case
6	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 appearing	mark
8	appearing	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fear	acl
9	incompetent	incompetent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 appearing	xcomp
10	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	11 induce	advmod
11	induce	induce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 induce	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 induce	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the minister's fear		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Eventuality
2	appear	gerund	the minister's fear not said here		incompetent property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	induce	present		him = he	ultimately property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result
4	do	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fear		the minister			nom fear «feeling transitive»: 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

to praise the nonexistent cloth and urge the Emperor to wear it at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 praise	mark
2	praise	praise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 urge	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cloth	det
4	nonexistent	nonexistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cloth	amod
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 praise	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 urge	cc
7	urge	urge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Emperor	det
9	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 urge	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 wear	mark
11	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 urge	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wear	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 wear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	praise	to-infinitive	you not said here	the nonexistent cloth	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme
2	urge	imperative	you not said here	the Emperor	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent emperor=Recipient clause=Topic
3	wear not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	cloth	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

to tell the Emperor the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 tell	mark
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Emperor	det
4	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 truth	det
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		the truth	the Emperor				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Recipient truth=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

to praise the nonexistent cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 praise	mark
2	praise	praise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cloth	det
4	nonexistent	nonexistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cloth	amod
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 praise	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	praise	to-infinitive		the nonexistent cloth					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme

Option 4

to order a fresh inquiry at court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 order	mark
2	order	order	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 inquiry	det
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 inquiry	amod
5	inquiry	inquiry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 order	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 court	case
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 order	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	to-infinitive		a fresh inquiry		court			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent inquiry=Theme at court=Asset

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