Exam question 4 · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's s…

In what manner does the gardener's son treat the old woman at the fountain?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: manner, you · What happens: do, treat · To what, where: son, old woman, fountain

This is exam question 4 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	In	in	SCONJ	_	4 does	mark
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 treat	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gardener	det
6	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 son	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 gardener	case
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
9	treat	treat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 treat	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 fountain	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fountain	det
15	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 treat	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 treat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	what manner	the gardener's son					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality
2	treat	imperative	you not said here		the old woman	the fountain			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=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

He ignores her

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	2 ignores	nsubj
2	ignores	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignores	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	present	He	her = she					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He offers his purse and lets her ride

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	2 offers	nsubj
2	offers	offer	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 purse	nmod:poss
4	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 offers	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lets	cc
6	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 offers	conj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ride	nmod:poss
8	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	offer	present	He	his purse	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent purse=Theme
2	let	present	He not said here	her ride	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ride=Theme
3	ride		her = she		nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

He offers his bread and lets her sit

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	2 offers	nsubj
2	offers	offer	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 bread	nmod:poss
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 offers	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lets	cc
6	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 offers	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lets	obj
8	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	offer	present	He	his bread	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent bread=Theme
2	let	present	He not said here	her = she	tree rules
3	sit	infinitive	her = she not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He offers his purse and lets her ride behind him all the way to town

The tree, 15 words

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	2 offers	nsubj
2	offers	offer	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 purse	nmod:poss
4	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 offers	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lets	cc
6	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 offers	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lets	obj
8	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lets	xcomp
9	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ride	obl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 way	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ride	obl:unmarked
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 town	case
15	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ride	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	offer	present	He	his purse			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent purse=Theme
2	let	present	He not said here	her = she			tree rules
3	ride	infinitive	her = she not said here	all way	town	behind him = he	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to town=Trajectory

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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