Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, t…

What is the final expressed regret of the princess after she and the swineherd are banished from the empire?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: expressed regret, final, princess · What happens: be, express, regret, banish · To what, where: final, empire

This is exam question 4 of lesson 997 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, the rattle and the kisses» 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 final	det
4	final	final	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 regret	nsubj
5	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 regret	amod
6	regret	regret	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 princess	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 princess	det
9	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 regret	nmod
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 banished	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 banished	nsubj:pass
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 swineherd	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 swineherd	det
14	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 she	conj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 banished	aux:pass
16	banished	banish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 princess	acl:relcl
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 empire	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 empire	det
19	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 banished	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	expressed regret				tree rules
2	express	participle					vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	regret		the final			of the princess	tree rules
4	banish	present · passive	the princess not said here	final	the empire		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from empire=Source

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 · ✓ the right answer

that she had not accepted the prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 accepted	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 accepted	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 accepted	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 accepted	advmod
5	accepted	accept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 accepted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not accept	past · perfect	she	the prince					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

that she had refused the prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 refused	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 refused	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 refused	aux
4	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 refused	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past · perfect	she	the prince					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme

Option 3

that she had not accepted the prince's offer of marriage and palace life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 accepted	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 accepted	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 accepted	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 accepted	advmod
5	accepted	accept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 offer	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 prince	case
9	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 accepted	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 marriage	case
11	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 offer	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 life	cc
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 life	compound
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 marriage	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not accept	past · perfect	she	the prince's offer of marriage and palace life					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme
2	offer		the prince	marriage and palace life					nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

Option 4

that she had not listened to the wise ladies and accepted the prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 listened	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 listened	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 listened	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 listened	advmod
5	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 accepted	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 ladies	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ladies	det
8	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ladies	amod
9	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 listened	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 accepted	cc
11	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 accepted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not listen	past · perfect	she					to the wise ladies	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to lady=Theme
2	accept	past		the prince					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme

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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