Exam question 2 · Perrault's Fairy Tales, Little Thumb: Little Thumb tricks…

Upon what grounds did the Ogre's wife surrender the entirety of her husband's treasure?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: husband · What happens: ground, do, surrender, treasure · To what, where: wife, entirety

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1469 «Perrault's Fairy Tales, Little Thumb: Little Thumb tricks the Ogre, steals his boots and gold, and grows rich» 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	Upon	upon	SCONJ	_	3 grounds	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 grounds	nsubj
3	grounds	ground	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 surrender	advcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grounds	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Ogre	det
6	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 wife	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Ogre	case
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	surrender	surrender	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 entirety	det
11	entirety	entirety	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 surrender	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 treasure	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 husband	nmod:poss
14	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 treasure	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 husband	case
16	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 entirety	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 surrender	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ground	present			tree rules
2	do	past		the Ogre's wife	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality
3	surrender	present		the entirety of wife's husband's treasure	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent entirety=Theme
4	treasure		wife's husband		nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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

Upon hearing that her husband was in danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	SCONJ	_	2 hearing	mark
2	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 danger	mark
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 husband	nmod:poss
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 danger	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 danger	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 danger	case
8	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hearing	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund							vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	her husband			danger			tree rules

Option 2

Upon fear of her husband

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 fear	case
2	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 husband	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 husband	nmod:poss
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fear	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear			her husband					nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Upon hearing a false account of her husband's peril

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	SCONJ	_	2 hearing	mark
2	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 account	det
4	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 account	amod
5	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hearing	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 peril	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 husband	nmod:poss
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 peril	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 husband	case
10	peril	peril	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 account	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hear	gerund		a false account of her husband's peril	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer account=Stimulus
2	account			her husband's peril	nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient
3	peril		her husband		nom peril «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Because she believed her husband was lost in war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 believed	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 believed	nsubj
3	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lost	advcl
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 husband	nmod:poss
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lost	aux:pass
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 war	case
9	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	she						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	lose	past · passive		her husband		war			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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