Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess: a Prince tests…

Upon what evidence did the Prince conclude that the stranger was a genuine Princess?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: evidence, Prince, stranger · What happens: do, conclude, be · To what, where: genuine Princess

This is exam question 2 of lesson 276 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess: a Prince tests a wet visitor with three peas» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 conclude	nsubj
7	conclude	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 Princess	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stranger	det
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Princess	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Princess	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 Princess	det
13	genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Princess	amod
14	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conclude	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	evidence		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	conclude	present	the Prince		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is a	past	the stranger	a genuine Princess	tree rules

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

Her complaint of discomfort through the bedding and the long night she spent awake in the corridor

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 complaint	nmod:poss
2	complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 discomfort	case
4	discomfort	discomfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 complaint	nmod
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 bedding	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bedding	det
7	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 complaint	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 night	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 night	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 night	amod
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 complaint	conj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 spent	nsubj
13	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 complaint	acl:relcl
14	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 spent	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 corridor	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 corridor	det
17	corridor	corridor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	she	Her complaint of discomfort through the bedding and the long night not said here		the corridor		awake property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent complaint=Asset
2	complain		discomfort			the bedding			nom complaint «state intransitive»: of=agent through=place

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Her complaint of discomfort through the bedding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 complaint	nmod:poss
2	complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 discomfort	case
4	discomfort	discomfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 complaint	nmod
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 bedding	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bedding	det
7	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 complaint	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	complain		discomfort			the bedding			nom complaint «state intransitive»: of=agent through=place

Option 3

Her spoken complaint of bruises from the mattresses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 complaint	nmod:poss
2	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 complaint	amod
3	complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 bruises	case
5	bruises	bruise	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 complaint	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 mattresses	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mattresses	det
8	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bruises	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	participle							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	complain		bruises from the mattresses						nom complaint «state intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

Her loud claim about the cold night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 claim	nmod:poss
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 claim	amod
3	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 claim	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim		Her = she				about the cold night		nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent about=obl

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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