Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under…

Which of the following correctly states the reason that the gingerbread pair walk toward the church with Knud and Joanna following?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gingerbread pair walk · What happens: follow, state · To what, where: reason

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1018 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under the willow and is found frozen to death» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 states	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 states	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 states	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 states	nsubj
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	6 states	advmod
6	states	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reason	det
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 states	obj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 following	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 walk	det
11	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walk	compound
12	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walk	compound
13	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 following	nsubj
14	toward	toward	ADP	_	16 church	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 church	det
16	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walk	nmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 Knud	case
18	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 church	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Joanna	cc
20	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Knud	conj
21	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 reason	acl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 states	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	state speech: other	present		the reason	correctly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent reason=Topic
3	follow	gerund	the gingerbread pair walk toward the church with Knud and Joanna	the reason not said here		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=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

They are hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					hungry property	tree rules

Option 2

They want cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	They	cake					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cake=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They are engaged to be married and wish to be wed at the altar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 engaged	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 engaged	aux:pass
3	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 married	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 married	aux:pass
6	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 engaged	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wish	cc
8	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 engaged	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	11 wed	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 wed	aux:pass
11	wed	w	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wish	ccomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 altar	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 altar	det
14	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	engage	present · passive	They		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	marry	to-infinitive · passive			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»
3	wish	infinitive			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	w not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive		the altar	tree rules

Option 4

They want to visit the priest to pray for rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 visit	mark
4	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 priest	det
6	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 visit	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pray	mark
8	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 visit	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 rain	case
10	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pray	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	They			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	visit not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	the priest		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Co-Agent
3	pray	to-infinitive	They not said here		for rain	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for rain=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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