Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 71: t…

Why did the royal officers resolve to tender their resignations?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: royal officers, officers · What happens: do, resolve, tender, resign · To what, where: resignations

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1484 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 71: the tailor tricks two giants and is offered a post by the King» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 officers	det
4	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 officers	amod
5	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 resolve	nsubj
6	resolve	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
7	to	to	PART	_	8 tender	mark
8	tender	tender	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 resolve	xcomp
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 resignations	nmod:poss
10	resignations	resignation	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tender	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	resolve	present	the royal officers		tree rules
3	tender	to-infinitive	the royal officers not said here	officers's resignations	tree rules
4	resign		officers = officer		nom resignation «feeling 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 · ✓ the right answer

They feared the tailor's strength

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 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tailor	det
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strength	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 tailor	case
6	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	They	the tailor's strength					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer strength=Stimulus

Option 2

They feared the king's anger

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 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 anger	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	They	the king's anger					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anger=Stimulus
2	anger		the king						nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They were ashamed of losing to a mere tailor

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	3 ashamed	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ashamed	cop
3	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 losing	mark
5	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ashamed	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 tailor	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tailor	det
8	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tailor	amod
9	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 losing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					ashamed property	tree rules
2	lose	gerund	They not said here					to a mere tailor	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They feared the tailor's strength and his tricks

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 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tailor	det
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strength	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 tailor	case
6	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feared	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tricks	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tricks	nmod:poss
9	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 strength	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	They	the tailor's strength and tailor's tricks					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer strength=Stimulus
2	trick		tailor						nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent

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