Exam question 3 · The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy…

What did the Editor state regarding the authorship of most of the tales?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, regard · To what, where: Editor state

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1276 «The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy's mother saves up to send him to school and then to a trade» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 state	det
4	Editor	Editor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 state	compound
5	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 authorship	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 authorship	det
8	authorship	authorship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 state	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 most	case
10	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 authorship	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 tales	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tales	det
13	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 most	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Editor state				regard the authorship of most of the tales	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Eventuality
2	regard	gerund							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nobody really wrote most of the stories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 wrote	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 wrote	advmod
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 wrote	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 stories	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stories	det
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	Nobody	most of the stories					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme

Option 2

Most were written by Homer alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 written	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 written	aux:pass
3	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 Homer	case
5	Homer	Homer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 written	obl
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 written	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · passive	Homer	Most				alone property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3

Most were from the Brothers Grimm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 Brothers	amod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Brothers	cop
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 Brothers	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Brothers	det
5	Brothers	Brother	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Brothers	compound

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						from the Most Brothers	tree rules

Option 4

Most of the stories were first written down by monks and scholars in the old monasteries of Europe and Asia

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 stories	amod
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 stories	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stories	det
4	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 written	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 written	aux:pass
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 written	advmod
7	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 written	compound:prt
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 monks	case
10	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 written	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 scholars	cc
12	scholars	scholar	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 monks	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 monasteries	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 monasteries	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 monasteries	amod
16	monasteries	monastery	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 written	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Europe	case
18	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 monasteries	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Asia	cc
20	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Europe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write down	past · passive	monks and scholars	the Most stories		the old monasteries of Europe and Asia		first property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in monastery=Destination

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