Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 2…

Determine the condition under which a Will-o'-the-Wisp is condemned to imprisonment in decayed wood.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, condemn, decay · To what, where: condition, Wisp

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1026 «Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 237: the Moor-woman shows the man her cupboard of poetry and tells him about the new Will-o'-the-Wisps born in the marsh» 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	Determine	determine	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 Determine	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 o	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 o	det
7	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 o	aux
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 o	punct
9	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	3 condition	nmod
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 o	punct
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 condemned	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Wisp	det
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 the	punct
14	Wisp	wisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 condemned	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 condemned	aux:pass
16	condemned	condemn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 '	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 imprisonment	case
18	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 condemned	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 wood	case
20	decayed	decay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 wood	amod
21	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 imprisonment	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the condition		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Topic
2	condemn	present · passive		the Wisp	to imprisonment in decayed wood	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	decay	participle				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Failure to lead the people of the village from their path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lead	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 lead	mark
3	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lead	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 village	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 village	det
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 people	nmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 path	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 path	nmod:poss
11	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lead	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	to-infinitive	Failure	the people of the village		people's path			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme from path=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Failure to lead three hundred and sixty-five people from the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lead	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 lead	mark
3	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 people	nummod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 five	cc
7	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 five	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 sixty	punct
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	conj
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lead	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 truth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 truth	det
13	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lead	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	to-infinitive	Failure	hundred people		the truth			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme from truth=Destination

Option 3

Refusing to lead three hundred and sixty-five travellers into the marsh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refusing	refuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 lead	mark
3	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Refusing	xcomp
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 travellers	nummod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 five	cc
7	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 five	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 sixty	punct
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	conj
10	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lead	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 marsh	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 marsh	det
13	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lead	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	gerund							vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not lead	to-infinitive		hundred travellers		the marsh			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent traveller=Theme into marsh=Destination

Option 4

Failure to lead three hundred and sixty-five people from the truth, or to return to the marsh with them

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lead	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 lead	mark
3	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 people	nummod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 five	cc
7	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 five	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 sixty	punct
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	conj
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lead	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 truth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 truth	det
13	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lead	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 return	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 return	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 return	mark
17	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 lead	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 marsh	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 marsh	det
20	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 return	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 return	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	to-infinitive	Failure	hundred people		the truth			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme from truth=Destination
2	return	to-infinitive						to the marsh result; with people	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to marsh=Result

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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