Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220…

Upon which word did John first succeed in determining the princess's thought?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, succeed, determine, think · To what, where: John

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1009 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220: John guesses "shoe" and wins the first riddle» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 word	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 succeed	advmod
7	succeed	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 determining	mark
9	determining	determine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 succeed	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thought	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 princess	case
13	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 determining	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	John	upon which word	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent john=Eventuality
2	succeed	present		first property	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	determine	gerund			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	participle			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

"Key," as the single word uttered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Key	punct
2	Key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Key	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Key	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 word	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 word	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 word	amod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Key	nmod
9	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 word	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	utter speech: other	participle		the single word not said here					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

"Ring," as the second word tried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ring	punct
2	Ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ring	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ring	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 word	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 word	det
7	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 word	amod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ring	nmod
9	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 word	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	participle		the second word not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

"Shoe," as the single word uttered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Shoe	punct
2	Shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Shoe	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Shoe	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 word	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 word	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 word	amod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Shoe	nmod
9	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 word	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	utter speech: other	participle		the single word not said here					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

"Hat," as the single word uttered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hat	punct
2	Hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hat	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hat	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 word	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 word	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 word	amod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hat	nmod
9	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 word	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	utter speech: other	participle		the single word not said here					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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