Exam question 4 · Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother se…

Upon whom did the prince bestow his attention and affection at the royal feast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: bestow, attend · To what, where: attention, royal feast

This is exam question 4 of lesson 759 «Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother sets impossible tasks, and a hazel-tree brings Ashputtel a golden dress for the king's feast» 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	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 bestow	obl
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bestow	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bestow	nsubj
6	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 attention	nmod:poss
8	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bestow	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 affection	cc
10	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 attention	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 feast	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 feast	det
13	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 feast	amod
14	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bestow	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bestow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bestow	past · do-support	the prince	prince's attention and affection		the royal feast			tree rules
2	attend		prince						nom attention «cognition 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

Upon the daughter of a neighbouring duke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 daughter	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 daughter	det
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 duke	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 duke	det
6	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 duke	amod
7	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 daughter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	neighbour	gerund							tree rules

Option 2

Upon the eldest stepdaughter in silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	4 stepdaughter	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stepdaughter	det
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 stepdaughter	amod
4	stepdaughter	stepdaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 silk	case
6	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stepdaughter	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Upon the unknown maiden in the golden dress

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	4 maiden	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maiden	det
3	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 maiden	amod
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 dress	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dress	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dress	amod
8	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maiden	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Upon the kitchen servant in her grey frock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	4 servant	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servant	det
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 servant	compound
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 frock	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 frock	nmod:poss
7	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 frock	amod
8	frock	frock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 servant	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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