Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 2: th…
What condition did the fairy impose upon the prince regarding her invitation to follow her?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition, fairy · What happens: impose, regard, follow, invite · To what, where: fairy
This is exam question 4 of lesson 935 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 2: the prince enters the garden of paradise» 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 condition | det |
| 2 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 impose | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 impose | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fairy | det |
| 5 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 impose | nsubj |
| 6 | impose | impose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 prince | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 impose | obl |
| 10 | regarding | regard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 invitation | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 invitation | nmod:poss |
| 12 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prince | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 follow | mark |
| 14 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 impose | advcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 follow | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 impose | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | impose | past · do-support | what condition | upon the prince regard fairy's invitation | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | regard | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | what condition not said here | fairy | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | invite | fairy | nom invitation «communication transitive»: 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
obey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | obey | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | imperative | you not said here | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
He must not obey it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 obey | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 obey | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 obey | advmod |
| 4 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 obey | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not obey | must | He | it | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
He must not follow her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 follow | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 follow | advmod |
| 4 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 follow | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not follow | must | He | her = she | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
Option 4
He should not answer her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 answer | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 answer | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 answer | advmod |
| 4 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 answer | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not answer speech: assert | should | He | her = she | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
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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