Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, The Sword of Strength, part 24: the prince is…

What did the prince's mother do in disobedience of her son's instructions, and with what consequence?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mother, son · What happens: do, disobey, instruct · To what, where: disobedience, instructions

This is exam question 3 of lesson 684 «Fairy Tales, The Sword of Strength, part 24: the prince is blinded and goes to the giant» 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 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mother	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 prince	case
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 disobedience	case
9	disobedience	disobedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 instructions	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 son	nmod:poss
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 instructions	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 son	case
14	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 disobedience	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 consequence	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 consequence	cc
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 consequence	case
18	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	19 consequence	det
19	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the prince's mother		disobedience of mother's son's instructions	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	disobey			mother's son's instructions		nom disobedience «act transitive»: of=patient
4	instruct		mother's son			nom instruction «communication 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

She disobeyed and opened a locked door, saw trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 disobeyed	nsubj
2	disobeyed	disobey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 opened	cc
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 disobeyed	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 door	det
6	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 door	amod
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 disobeyed	conj
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	disobey	past	She		tree rules
2	open	past	She not said here	a locked door	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
3	lock	participle			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	see	past	She not said here	trouble	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trouble=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She opened the locked rooms and found the robbers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 opened	nsubj
2	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rooms	det
4	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 rooms	amod
5	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 opened	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 found	cc
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 opened	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 robbers	det
9	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	open	past	She	the locked rooms	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location room=Theme
2	lock	participle			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	find	past	She not said here	the robbers	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She opened all the locked rooms and saw the captain alive, which terrified her

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 opened	nsubj
2	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 rooms	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rooms	det
5	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 rooms	amod
6	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 opened	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saw	cc
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 opened	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 captain	det
10	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
11	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 captain	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 terrified	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 terrified	nsubj
14	terrified	terrify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 captain	acl:relcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 terrified	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	open	past	She	all locked rooms	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location room=Theme
2	lock	participle			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	see	past	She not said here	the captain	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer captain=Stimulus
4	terrify	past	the captain	her = she	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

Option 4

She obeyed him and kept every door locked, and so she saw nothing at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 obeyed	nsubj
2	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 obeyed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kept	cc
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 obeyed	conj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obj
8	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 kept	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 saw	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 obeyed	conj
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 saw	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 saw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	obey	past	She	him = he		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	keep	past	She not said here	every door		tree rules
3	lock	participle	every door not said here			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	see	past	she	nothing	all	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

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