Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid save…

What was the state of the prince's eyes when the morning sun rose?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: state · What happens: be

This is exam question 4 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	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 state	det
4	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 eyes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eyes	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 prince	case
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 state	nmod
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 rose	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rose	det
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sun	compound
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rose	compound
14	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 state	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the state of the prince's eyes the sun rose						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

They were wide open

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 open	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 open	cop
3	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 open	advmod
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					open property	tree rules

Option 2

They stayed shut tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stayed	xcomp
4	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shut	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	They						tree rules
2	shut	participle	They not said here					tight property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They remained closed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remained	nsubj
2	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 remained	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	They						tree rules
2	close	participle	They not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Closed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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