Exam question 1 · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's s…

To what social origin does the wise old man attribute the failure of the royal gardeners?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wise old man, royal gardeners · What happens: attribute, fail · To what, where: failure

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1414 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's son cures the old King and asks for a ring» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 attribute	obl
3	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 origin	amod
4	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 attribute	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
7	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 attribute	nsubj
10	attribute	attribute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 failure	det
12	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 attribute	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 gardeners	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gardeners	det
15	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gardeners	amod
16	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 failure	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 attribute	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attribute	present · do-support	the wise old man	the failure of the royal gardeners					tree rules
2	fail		the royal gardeners						nom failure «act intransitive»: of=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

Their fathers were cobblers and carpenters, and their masters were foreign merchants from the south

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 fathers	nmod:poss
2	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cobblers	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cobblers	cop
4	cobblers	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 carpenters	cc
6	carpenters	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cobblers	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 merchants	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 merchants	cc
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 masters	nmod:poss
10	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 merchants	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 merchants	cop
12	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 merchants	amod
13	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cobblers	conj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 south	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 south	det
16	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 merchants	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Their fathers	cobblers and carpenters and foreign merchants					tree rules
2	is a	past	fathers's masters	foreign merchants		the south			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Their fathers were cobblers and carpenters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 fathers	nmod:poss
2	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cobblers	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cobblers	cop
4	cobblers	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 carpenters	cc
6	carpenters	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cobblers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Their fathers	cobblers and carpenters					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Their fathers were cobblers and carpenters, not gardeners, so they knew nothing of soil

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 fathers	nmod:poss
2	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cobblers	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cobblers	cop
4	cobblers	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 carpenters	cc
6	carpenters	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cobblers	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gardeners	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 gardeners	advmod
9	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cobblers	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knew	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 knew	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cobblers	parataxis
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 knew	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 soil	case
16	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Their fathers	cobblers and carpenters and gardeners					tree rules
2	know	past	fathers = father	nothing					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

Option 4

Their grandfathers were shepherds and smiths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 grandfathers	nmod:poss
2	grandfathers	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shepherds	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shepherds	cop
4	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 smiths	cc
6	smiths	smith	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shepherds	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Their grandfathers	shepherds and smiths					tree rules

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