Exam question 2 · Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 55: lost agai…

Identify the reason given by the fagot-maker's wife for the abandonment of the children in the forest.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, give, abandon · To what, where: reason, forest, children

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1468 «Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 55: lost again, the children reach the ogre's house» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reason	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	11 wife	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maker	det
7	fagot	fagot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 maker	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fagot	punct
9	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wife	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 maker	case
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 abandonment	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 abandonment	det
14	abandonment	abandonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 children	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 children	det
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 abandonment	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 forest	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 forest	det
20	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the reason			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	give	participle		the reason not said here	the forest	by the fagot maker's wife; for the abandonment of the children	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for abandonment=Asset
3	abandon			the children			nom abandonment «act transitive»: of=patient

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 children were lazy and the family wanted them gone from the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lazy	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	cop
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wanted	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 family	det
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wanted	obj
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wanted	xcomp
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the children			lazy property	tree rules
2	want	past	the family	children = child			tree rules
3	go not said to happen	participle	children = child not said here		the house		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from house=Initial_Location

Option 2

The family was too poor to feed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poor	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poor	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 poor	advmod
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 feed	mark
7	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 poor	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the family					poor property	tree rules
2	feed	to-infinitive	the family not said here	them = they					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 3

They had no money left for food

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 money	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 money	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 food	case
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	no money					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
2	leave	participle		no money not said here				for food	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for food=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The family had exhausted the ten crowns and could not afford to feed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 exhausted	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 exhausted	aux
4	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crowns	det
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 crowns	nummod
7	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 exhausted	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 afford	cc
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 afford	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 afford	advmod
11	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 exhausted	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 feed	mark
13	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 afford	xcomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	exhaust	past · perfect	the family	the ten crowns	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus crown=Experiencer
2	not afford	could	the family not said here		tree rules
3	feed	to-infinitive	the family not said here	crowns = crown	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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