Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part 232: Eliza is disgu…

What quality of the sea did Eliza observe that gave her resolve to persevere in her task?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quality, that, Eliza · What happens: observe, give, resolve, persevere, task · To what, where: Eliza, task

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1021 «Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part 232: Eliza is disguised, wanders the forest and shore, and meets her swan brothers at sunset» 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 quality	det
2	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 observe	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quality	nmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 observe	aux
7	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 observe	nsubj
8	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 observe	ccomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	resolve	resolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 gave	xcomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 persevere	mark
14	persevere	persevere	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 resolve	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 task	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 task	nmod:poss
17	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 persevere	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 observe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	observe	past · do-support	what quality of the sea			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	past	that	Eliza		tree rules
3	resolve	infinitive	that not said here			tree rules
4	persevere	to-infinitive	that not said here		Eliza's task	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in task=Location
5	task		Eliza			nom task «act transitive»: poss=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

The endless noise of the gulls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 noise	det
2	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 noise	amod
3	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 gulls	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gulls	det
6	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 noise	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	noise		the gulls						nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

The unwearied rolling of the waves, which never stopped even in the storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rolling	det
2	unwearied	unwearied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rolling	amod
3	rolling	rolling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 waves	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 waves	det
6	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rolling	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stopped	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 stopped	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 stopped	advmod
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 storm	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 storm	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 storm	det
14	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	past	the unwearied rolling of the waves			the storm			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in storm=Location
2	roll		the waves						nom rolling «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

The calm, cold surface

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 surface	det
2	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 surface	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 calm	punct
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 surface	amod
5	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The unwearied rolling of the waves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rolling	det
2	unwearied	unwearied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rolling	amod
3	rolling	rolling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 waves	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 waves	det
6	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rolling	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll		the waves						nom rolling «event intransitive»: of=agent

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