Exam question 3 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son, part 27: Ian is…

What service did the second sister's shoes render to the fisher's son?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: service, shoes · What happens: do, render · To what, where: son

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1302 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son, part 27: Ian is killed and revived by the deer, then the birds carry him under the sea» 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	3 did	obj
2	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sister	det
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 sister	amod
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shoes	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 sister	case
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 render	nsubj
9	render	render	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 son	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fisher	det
12	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 son	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 fisher	case
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 render	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	service						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	render	present	the second sister's shoes		the fisher's son				vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to son=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

They walked him to the eastern shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 shore	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shore	det
6	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shore	amod
7	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	They	him = he		the eastern shore			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme to shore=Trajectory

Option 2

They conveyed him swiftly to the third sister and then vanished into the mist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 conveyed	nsubj
2	conveyed	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 conveyed	obj
4	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	2 conveyed	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 sister	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sister	det
7	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 sister	amod
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 conveyed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 vanished	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 vanished	advmod
11	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 conveyed	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 mist	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mist	det
14	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 vanished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convey	past	They	him = he	the third sister			swiftly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to sister=Recipient
2	vanish	past	They not said here			the mist	then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They conveyed him swiftly to the third sister

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 conveyed	nsubj
2	conveyed	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 conveyed	obj
4	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	2 conveyed	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 sister	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sister	det
7	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 sister	amod
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 conveyed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convey	past	They	him = he	the third sister			swiftly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to sister=Recipient

Option 4

They took him over the sea slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	They		him = he	the sea		slowly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

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