Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to ston…

Which servant overheard the ravens, and what did he resolve to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: servant · What happens: overhear, resolve, do · To what, where: ravens

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1483 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to stone and brought back at a dreadful price» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 overheard	nsubj
3	overheard	overhear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ravens	det
5	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 overheard	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 resolve	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 resolve	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 resolve	obj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 resolve	aux
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 resolve	nsubj
11	resolve	resolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 overheard	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 resolve	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 overheard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	overhear	past	which servant	the ravens	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer raven=Stimulus
2	resolve	past · do-support	servant		tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	servant not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

The gardener, who vowed to warn the King

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 vowed	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 vowed	nsubj
5	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gardener	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 warn	mark
7	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 vowed	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 warn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vow	past	the gardener						tree rules
2	warn speech: warn not said to happen	to-infinitive	the gardener not said here		the King				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient

Option 2

A stable boy, who ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ran	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 ran	nsubj
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 boy	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	a stable boy						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Trusty John, who decided to keep silent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trusty	trusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 John	amod
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 decided	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 decided	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 decided	nsubj
5	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 decided	xcomp
8	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	past	Trusty John						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	Trusty John not said here					silent property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Trusty John, who resolved to stand by his master

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trusty	trusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 John	amod
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 resolved	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 resolved	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 resolved	nsubj
5	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stand	mark
7	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 resolved	xcomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 master	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 master	nmod:poss
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resolve	past	Trusty John						tree rules
2	stand	to-infinitive	Trusty John not said here					by John's master	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by master=Location

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