Exam question 2 · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring: the mice win back the ri…

To what extent did the quarrel among the mice contribute to the loss of the talisman?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: extent, mice · What happens: do, contribute · To what, where: quarrel, loss

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1416 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring: the mice win back the ring, then lose it at 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 quarrel	det
6	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	among	among	ADP	_	10 contribute	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mice	det
9	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 contribute	nsubj
10	contribute	contribute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 loss	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 loss	det
13	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 contribute	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 talisman	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 talisman	det
16	talisman	talisman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 loss	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	extent	the quarrel					tree rules
2	contribute	present	the mice		the loss of the talisman				vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to loss=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

It caused the mice to flee the boat in fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caused	nsubj
2	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mice	det
4	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 caused	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 flee	mark
6	flee	flee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 caused	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boat	det
8	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flee	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 fear	case
10	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flee	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past	It	the mice					tree rules
2	flee	to-infinitive	the mice not said here	the boat		fear			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boat=Initial_Location

Option 2

It did not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	It						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It led the captain to hide the ring at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 led	nsubj
2	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 captain	det
4	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 led	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hide	mark
6	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 led	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ring	det
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hide	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 sea	case
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	past	It	the captain					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Theme
2	hide	to-infinitive		the ring		sea			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ring=Patient at sea=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It caused the ring to fall into the sea during the altercation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caused	nsubj
2	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ring	det
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caused	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fall	mark
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 caused	xcomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	obl
10	during	during	ADP	_	12 altercation	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 altercation	det
12	altercation	altercation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past	It	the ring					tree rules
2	fall	to-infinitive	the ring not said here				during the altercation	into the sea result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result

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