Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid save…

What was the precise relationship of the elderly dowager to the youngest sister?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: precise relationship

This is exam question 2 of lesson 877 «Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid saves the drowning prince from the storm» 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 relationship	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 relationship	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 relationship	det
4	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 relationship	amod
5	relationship	relationship	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 dowager	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dowager	det
8	elderly	elderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dowager	amod
9	dowager	dowager	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 relationship	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 sister	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sister	det
12	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 sister	amod
13	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dowager	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 relationship	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the precise relationship				of the elderly dowager to the youngest sister	tree rules

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

Her aunt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 aunt	nmod:poss
2	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

She was her grandfather's wife

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 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 grandfather	nmod:poss
4	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 grandfather	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	She						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She was her grandmother

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	4 grandmother	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grandmother	cop
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 grandmother	nmod:poss
4	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	She	her grandmother					tree rules

Option 4

She was her mother's sister

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	6 sister	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sister	cop
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sister	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 mother	case
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	She	her mother's sister					tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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