Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, The Land of Immortality: the prince rides a ri…

What was the principal consequence of the prince's arrival in the chamber of the sleeping queen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: prince · What happens: be, arrive · To what, where: principal consequence, chamber

This is exam question 4 of lesson 691 «Fairy Book, The Land of Immortality: the prince rides a ring to the world's end and finds a queen who wakes» 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	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 consequence	amod
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 arrival	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arrival	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 prince	case
10	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 chamber	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chamber	det
13	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 queen	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 queen	det
16	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 queen	compound
17	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chamber	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal consequence		the chamber of the sleeping queen		of the prince's arrival	tree rules
2	arrive		the prince						nom arrival «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The spell was dissolved and she awoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spell	det
2	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dissolved	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dissolved	aux:pass
4	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 awoke	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 awoke	nsubj
7	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dissolved	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	past · passive		the spell					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	awake	past	spell						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She ate food

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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	She	food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 3

The castle walls crumbled to the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 walls	det
2	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walls	compound
3	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	crumbled	crumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 walls	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crumbled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crumble	participle		the castle walls not said here				to the ground result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to ground=Result

Option 4

He left town

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 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	He	town					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme

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