Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle…

What is the character of the judge whom Rübezahl ultimately served?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: character · What happens: be, serve · To what, where: Rübezahl

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1249 «Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle his hills and serves three masters» 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	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 character	det
4	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 judge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 judge	det
7	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 character	nmod
8	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 Rübezahl	punct
9	Rübezahl	Rübezahl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 judge	appos
10	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	11 served	advmod
11	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 Rübezahl	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the character of the judge						tree rules
2	serve	participle		Rübezahl not said here				ultimately property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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

He was a kind man who was poor.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 man	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 poor	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 poor	cop
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	acl:relcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a kind man					tree rules
2	is	past	a kind man					poor property	tree rules

Option 2

He was a cruel man who loved gold.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 man	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 loved	nsubj
7	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	acl:relcl
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loved	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a cruel man					tree rules
2	love	past	a cruel man	gold					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He was a bad man who took bribes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 man	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 took	nsubj
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	acl:relcl
8	bribes	bribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 took	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a bad man					tree rules
2	take	past	a bad man	bribes					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bribe=Theme

Option 4

He was a fair and honest man.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 man	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 honest	cc
6	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fair	conj
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a fair man					tree rules

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