Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John…

Describe the condition of the wooden queen after her wrist was restored by the salve.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, salve · What happens: describe, restore, condition · To what, where: condition, wrist, wooden queen

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1007 «Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John pays for a dead man's rest, then the salve mends a broken doll» 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	Describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 condition	det
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Describe	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 queen	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 queen	det
6	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 queen	amod
7	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 condition	nmod
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 restored	mark
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wrist	nmod:poss
10	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 restored	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 restored	aux:pass
12	restored	restore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Describe	advcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 salve	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 salve	det
15	salve	salve	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 restored	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	describe	imperative	you not said here	the condition of the wooden queen	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent condition=Theme
2	restore	past · passive	the salve	her wrist	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	condition			the wooden queen	nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient

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

her head, shoulders and arms were all carefully fixed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 head	nmod:poss
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fixed	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shoulders	punct
4	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 head	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 arms	cc
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shoulders	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fixed	aux:pass
8	all	all	ADV	_	10 fixed	advmod
9	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	10 fixed	advmod
10	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	past · passive		her head and shoulders and arms				all, carefully property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient

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

her head and shoulders were fixed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 head	nmod:poss
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fixed	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 shoulders	cc
4	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 head	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fixed	aux:pass
6	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	past · passive		her head and shoulders					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient

Option 3

her arm was broken again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 arm	nmod:poss
2	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broken	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	aux:pass
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 broken	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past · passive		her arm			again		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

her wrist was broken still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wrist	nmod:poss
2	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broken	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	aux:pass
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	still	still	ADV	_	4 broken	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past · passive		her wrist			still		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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