Exam question 1 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth…

Upon which occasion was the queen restored to her husband, the king?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: occasion · What happens: be, restore · To what, where: husband

This is exam question 1 of lesson 683 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth from the gallows, and he is made king» 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	_	6 queen	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 occasion	det
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 queen	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 queen	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 restored	obl
7	restored	restore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 husband	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 husband	nmod:poss
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 restored	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 king	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 husband	appos
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 restored	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	which occasion					upon the queen	tree rules
2	restore	past			her husband				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient

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

When the magician sang the old song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 sang	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magician	det
3	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 song	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 song	amod
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the magician	the old song					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 2

When he came home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	he					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Upon the youth's return to the river with the horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	5 return	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 return	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 youth	case
5	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 return	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 horse	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horse	det
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 return	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return		the youth					to the river; with the horse	nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl with=obl

Option 4

Upon the youth's visit to the palace at dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	5 visit	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visit	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 youth	case
5	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 palace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 palace	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visit	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 dusk	case
10	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 palace	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit		the youth					to the palace at dusk	nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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