Exam question 4 · Crimson Fairy Book, The Seven Simeons, part 8: Simon steal…

Evaluate the king's response upon learning of his daughter's disappearance, with reference to the emotions expressed in the text.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, daughter · What happens: evaluate, express, disappear · To what, where: response, emotions, text

This is exam question 4 of lesson 668 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Seven Simeons, part 8: Simon steals the princess and sails off under the sea» 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	Evaluate	evaluate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 response	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 king	case
5	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Evaluate	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 learning	case
7	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Evaluate	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 disappearance	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 daughter	nmod:poss
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 disappearance	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 daughter	case
12	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 learning	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 reference	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 reference	case
15	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Evaluate	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 emotions	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 emotions	det
18	emotions	emotion	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 reference	nmod
19	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 emotions	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 text	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 text	det
22	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 expressed	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Evaluate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	evaluate	imperative	you not said here	the king's response		upon learning of king's daughter's disappearance; with reference to the emotions	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	express	participle		the emotions not said here	the text		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	disappear		king's daughter				nom disappearance «act 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

He wept and stormed in grief

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 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 stormed	cc
4	stormed	storm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 grief	case
6	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stormed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	He						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	storm	past	He not said here			grief			vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 2

He sulked and sighed quietly

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 sulked	nsubj
2	sulked	sulk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sighed	cc
4	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sulked	conj
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	4 sighed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sulk	past	He						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	sigh	past	He not said here					quietly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He stormed

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 stormed	nsubj
2	stormed	storm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	storm	past	He						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He wept in grief

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 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 grief	case
4	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	He					in grief	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in grief=Theme

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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