Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 2: the soldie…

Identify the sequence in which the soldier's wealth is first acquired and then exhausted.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, acquire, exhaust · To what, where: sequence, wealth

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1002 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 2: the soldier takes gold from the dogs' chests, spends it, and calls the princess up with the tinder-box» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sequence	det
3	sequence	sequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 acquired	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soldier	det
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wealth	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 soldier	case
9	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 acquired	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 acquired	aux:pass
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 acquired	advmod
12	acquired	acquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sequence	acl:relcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 exhausted	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 exhausted	advmod
15	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 acquired	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the sequence				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sequence=Theme
2	acquire	present · passive		the soldier's wealth	the sequence		first property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme
3	exhaust	past				then		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

first copper, then silver, then gold, and then he gave it all to the poor

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 copper	amod
2	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 silver	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 silver	advmod
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 copper	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gold	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 gold	advmod
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 copper	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 gave	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	nsubj
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 copper	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	obj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 it	det
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 poor	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 poor	det
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	gold	the poor		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to poor=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

copper, silver, gold, then spent to two shillings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 silver	punct
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 copper	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gold	punct
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 copper	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spent	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 spent	advmod
8	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 copper	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 shillings	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 shillings	nummod
11	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	participle		copper and silver and gold not said here			then	to two shillings	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

copper, silver, gold, spent on theatre, then down to two shillings

The tree, 11 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 silver	punct
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 copper	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gold	punct
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 copper	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spent	punct
7	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 copper	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 theatre	case
9	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spent	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 down	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 down	advmod
12	down	down	ADV	_	7 spent	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 shillings	case
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 shillings	nummod
15	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 down	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	participle		copper and silver and gold not said here				on theatre goal; down property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on theatre=Goal

Option 4

copper, then gold, then silver, then nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gold	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 gold	advmod
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 copper	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 silver	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 silver	advmod
7	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 copper	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nothing	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 nothing	advmod
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 copper	conj

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

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