Exam question 2 · Blue Fairy Book, The Hairy Man, part 4: a swineherd's dogs…

What was the immediate consequence of the old king witnessing the servant's revival?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old king, servant · What happens: be, witness, revive · To what, where: immediate consequence, revival

This is exam question 2 of lesson 664 «Blue Fairy Book, The Hairy Man, part 4: a swineherd's dogs catch a hairy thief, and a prince gets three magic apples» 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	5 consequence	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 consequence	det
4	immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 consequence	amod
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 king	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 king	amod
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
10	witnessing	witness	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 king	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 servant	det
12	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 revival	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 servant	case
14	revival	revival	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 witnessing	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the immediate consequence	of the old king	tree rules
2	witness	gerund	the old king not said here	the servant's revival		vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revival=Beneficiary
3	revive		the servant			nom revival «act 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 · ← Mova's choice

He pardoned the faithful servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pardoned	nsubj
2	pardoned	pardon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 servant	det
4	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 servant	amod
5	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pardoned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pardon	past	He	the faithful servant					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme

Option 2

He sent for the miller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 miller	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 miller	det
5	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	He					for the miller	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He exiled the prince from court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 exiled	nsubj
2	exiled	exile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exiled	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 court	case
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exiled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exile	past	He	the prince		court			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent prince=Theme from court=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He foamed with rage and died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 foamed	nsubj
2	foamed	foam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 rage	case
4	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 foamed	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 died	cc
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 foamed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	foam	past	He					with rage	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rage=Theme
2	die	past	He not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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