Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Could Not Shiver: a bri…

What was the outcome of the contest between the youth and the bearded man at the forge?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: outcome

This is exam question 3 of lesson 104 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Could Not Shiver: a bride pours cold fish over him and he learns to shiver» 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	PRON	PronType=Int	4 outcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 outcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 outcome	det
4	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 contest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 contest	det
7	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outcome	nmod
8	between	between	ADP	_	10 youth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 youth	det
10	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 contest	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 man	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outcome	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 forge	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forge	det
17	forge	forge	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 man	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the outcome and the bearded man at the forge				of the contest between the youth	tree rules

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

The youth ran away and the old man burned the forge down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 burned	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burned	nsubj
9	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forge	det
11	forge	forge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burned	obj
12	down	down	ADP	_	9 burned	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	the youth					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burn down	past	the old man	the forge					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent forge=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The old man split the anvil and trapped the youth's arm inside it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 split	nsubj
4	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 anvil	det
6	anvil	anvil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 split	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 trapped	cc
8	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 anvil	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 youth	det
10	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 arm	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 youth	case
12	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 split	obj
13	inside	inside	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 split	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	past	the old man	the anvil		arm			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent anvil=Patient arm=Result
2	trap	participle	the old man not said here						vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The youth split the anvil and wedged the old man's beard in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 split	nsubj
3	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 anvil	det
5	anvil	anvil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 split	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wedged	cc
7	wedged	wedge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 split	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beard	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 man	case
12	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wedged	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wedged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	past	the youth	the anvil					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anvil=Patient
2	wedge	past	the youth not said here	the old man's beard		youth			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent beard=Theme in it=Trajectory

Option 4

The old man won the match

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 won	nsubj
4	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 match	det
6	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	the old man	the match					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality

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