Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, part 45: Lily trad…

What was the purpose of the sleeping draught administered to the prince?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: purpose, sleeping draught · What happens: be, administer, purpose · To what, where: sleeping draught, prince

This is exam question 4 of lesson 769 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, part 45: Lily trades her golden dress for one night, but the prince sleeps through it» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 purpose	det
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 draught	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 draught	det
7	sleeping	sleeping	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 draught	amod
8	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purpose	nmod
9	administered	administer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 draught	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 prince	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 prince	det
12	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 administered	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the purpose of the sleeping draught			tree rules
2	administer	participle		the sleeping draught not said here	the prince	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient
3	purpose		the sleeping draught			nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=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

so he would not know his wife at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	5 know	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 know	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	would	he	his wife		all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus

Option 2

to keep him from realizing who she was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 realizing	mark
5	realizing	realize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 keep	advcl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 realizing	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 who	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 who	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		him = he	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	realize	gerund			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	she		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to prevent him perceiving his wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 prevent	mark
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 prevent	obj
4	perceiving	perceive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 prevent	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perceiving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent	to-infinitive		him = he					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme
2	perceive	gerund		his wife					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus

Option 4

to stop him from ever waking to perceive his wife's return to the palace

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stop	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 waking	mark
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 waking	advmod
6	waking	wake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stop	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 perceive	mark
8	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 waking	xcomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 return	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 wife	case
12	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 perceive	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 palace	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 palace	det
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 perceive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		him = he			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality
2	wake	gerund			ever		tree rules
3	perceive	to-infinitive		his wife's return		to the palace	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent return=Theme to palace=be'
4	return		his wife				nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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