Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What F…

What is the youth's stated reason for taking the seven bodies down from the gallows in the first instance?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: stated reason · What happens: state, be, take · To what, where: stated reason, seven bodies, gallows

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1434 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, part 21: the youth warms seven dead men and hangs them back up» 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	7 reason	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 reason	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reason	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 youth	case
6	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 reason	amod
7	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 taking	mark
9	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 reason	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bodies	det
11	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 bodies	nummod
12	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 taking	obj
13	down	down	ADV	_	9 taking	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 gallows	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gallows	det
16	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 taking	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 instance	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 instance	det
19	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 instance	amod
20	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gallows	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	participle					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		the youth's stated reason			tree rules
3	take	gerund	the youth's stated reason not said here	the seven bodies	the gallows in the first instance	down property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent body=Theme from gallows=Initial_Location

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

He is moved by a tender heart

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	3 moved	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 moved	aux:pass
3	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 heart	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 heart	det
6	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heart	compound
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present · passive	a tender heart	He					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme subject=Result

Option 2

He wants the gold

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	He	the gold					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme

Option 3

He wants to warm them all up

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 warm	mark
4	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 warm	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 up	advmod
7	up	up	ADV	_	4 warm	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	warm not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	them = they					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

He is moved by pity for them

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	3 moved	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 moved	aux:pass
3	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 pity	case
5	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pity	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present · passive	pity for them	He					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme subject=Result

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