Exam question 2 · Grimm's Tales, The Wind's Gift, part 6: the poor man wins…

Identify the words by which the wife declined to admit her husband to the house.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, wife · What happens: identify, decline, not admit · To what, where: words, husband, house

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1100 «Grimm's Tales, The Wind's Gift, part 6: the poor man wins back his sack and ram, and his rich brother buys them» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 declined	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wife	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 declined	nsubj
8	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 words	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 admit	mark
10	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 declined	xcomp
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 husband	nmod:poss
12	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 admit	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 admit	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the words			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	decline	past	the wife			by the words	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not admit speech: other	to-infinitive	the wife not said here	wife's husband	the house		vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Topic to house=Recipient

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 right answer

"Open the door thyself."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Open	punct
2	Open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Open	obj
5	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	2 Open	obl:unmarked
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Open	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Open	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the door				thyself obl:unmarked	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme

Option 2

"Open the door thyself, husband, and bring the henchmen in too."

The tree, 11 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Open	punct
2	Open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Open	obj
5	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	2 Open	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 husband	punct
7	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Open	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bring	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bring	cc
10	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Open	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 henchmen	det
12	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bring	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 too	case
14	too	too	ADV	_	10 bring	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Open	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Open	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the door				thyself obl:unmarked; husband obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
2	bring in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the henchmen					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent henchman=Theme

Option 3

"Open the door thyself, for I am sulky and will not rise."

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Open	punct
2	Open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Open	obj
5	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	2 Open	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sulky	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 sulky	case
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 sulky	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sulky	cop
10	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Open	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rise	cc
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 rise	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 rise	advmod
14	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sulky	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Open	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Open	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	open in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the door	thyself obl:unmarked	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	I		sulky property	tree rules
3	not rise in a quote	future	I not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

"Thou open it thyself."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 open	punct
2	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 open	nsubj
3	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 open	obj
5	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	3 open	obl
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 open	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 open	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open in a quote	present	Thou	it				thyself obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

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