Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad climbs out of a well an…

Which group of creatures does the toad encounter at the pond, and how do they receive her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: group, creatures · What happens: do, receive · To what, where: toad encounter, pond, group

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1004 «Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad climbs out of a well and goes hunting for a better world» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 group	det
2	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 creatures	case
4	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 group	nmod
5	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 encounter	det
7	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 encounter	compound
8	encounter	encounter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 pond	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pond	det
11	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 receive	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 receive	cc
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 receive	advmod
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 receive	aux
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 receive	nsubj
17	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 does	parataxis
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 receive	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	which group of creatures	the toad encounter		the pond			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent encounter=Eventuality
2	receive	present · do-support	creatures = creature	group					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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

The frogs, who ignore her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frogs	det
2	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ignore	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ignore	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 ignore	nsubj
5	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	present	the frogs	her = she					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2

The stork, who greets her kindly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stork	det
2	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 greets	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 greets	nsubj
5	greets	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stork	acl:relcl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 greets	obj
7	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	5 greets	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	present	the stork		stork			kindly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The frogs, who welcome her warmly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frogs	det
2	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 welcome	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 welcome	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 welcome	nsubj
5	welcome	welcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 welcome	obj
7	warmly	warmly	ADV	_	5 welcome	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	welcome	past	the frogs	her = she				warmly property	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

The hens, who chase her away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hens	det
2	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chase	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chase	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 chase	nsubj
5	chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chase	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 chase	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase away	present	the hens	her = she				away property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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