Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest princ…
What was the principal cause of the elder brothers' resentment during the sea voyage?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: elder brothers · What happens: be, resent · To what, where: principal cause
This is exam question 3 of lesson 775 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest prince is cheated, then wins his bride» 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 cause | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cause | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cause | det |
| 4 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cause | amod |
| 5 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 resentment | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brothers | det |
| 8 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brothers | amod |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 resentment | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 brothers | case |
| 11 | resentment | resentment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cause | nmod |
| 12 | during | during | ADP | _ | 15 voyage | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 voyage | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 voyage | compound |
| 15 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 resentment | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 cause | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the principal cause | of the elder brothers's resentment during the sea voyage | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | resent | the elder brothers | during the sea voyage | nom resentment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent during=obl |
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 prince's possession of the Water of Life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 possession | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 prince | case |
| 4 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Water | det |
| 7 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 possession | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Life | case |
| 9 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Water | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | the prince | the Water of Life | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
Option 2
The brothers' hunger for the royal crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 brothers | case |
| 4 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 crown | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crown | det |
| 7 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crown | amod |
| 8 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hunger | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunger | the brothers | for the royal crown | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
Option 3
The prince's possession of the Water of Life and his father's love
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 possession | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 prince | case |
| 4 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Water | det |
| 7 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 possession | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Life | case |
| 9 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Water | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 love | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 love | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 father | case |
| 14 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 possession | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | the prince | the Water of Life | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | |||||
| 2 | love | Life's father | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
The prince's possession of the Water of Life during the long voyage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 possession | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 prince | case |
| 4 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Water | det |
| 7 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 possession | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Life | case |
| 9 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Water | nmod |
| 10 | during | during | ADP | _ | 13 voyage | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 voyage | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 voyage | amod |
| 13 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 possession | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | the prince | the Water of Life | during the long voyage | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient during=obl |
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