Exam question 4 · Folk Tales, The Cunning Hare, part 18: Alonzo faces the Ya…

Taking the passage into account, what effect does the Yara's singing have upon Alonzo's senses and will?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: effect, Yara · What happens: take, do, have, sing · To what, where: passage, account, singing

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1217 «Folk Tales, The Cunning Hare, part 18: Alonzo faces the Yara and the hare calls up a spell» 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	Taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 does	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 passage	det
3	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 account	case
5	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Taking	punct
7	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	8 effect	det
8	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	nsubj
9	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Yara	det
11	Yara	Yara	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 singing	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Yara	case
13	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	obj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 does	conj
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 senses	case
16	Alonzo	Alonzo	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 senses	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Alonzo	case
18	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 will	cc
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	advcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		the passage	account		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent passage=Theme into account=Destination
2	do	present	what effect	the Yara's singing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent singing=Eventuality
3	have	present	what effect not said here			upon Alonzo's senses	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sing		the Yara				nom singing «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

It makes him fall asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fall	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	him = he					tree rules
2	fall	infinitive	him = he not said here					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It gives him strength and brings his full courage back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	iobj
4	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 brings	cc
6	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 gives	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 courage	nmod:poss
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 courage	amod
9	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brings	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	6 brings	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	It	strength	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient strength=Theme
2	bring	present		his full courage					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent courage=Theme

Option 3

It makes him feel sleepy and calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 calm	cc
7	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sleepy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	him = he					tree rules
2	feel	infinitive	him = he not said here					sleepy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It causes his senses to fail and his will to weaken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 causes	nsubj
2	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 senses	nmod:poss
4	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 causes	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fail	mark
6	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 causes	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 will	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 will	nmod:poss
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fail	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 weaken	mark
11	weaken	weaken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fail	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cause	present	It	his senses	tree rules
2	fail	to-infinitive	his senses not said here		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	weaken	to-infinitive	his senses not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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