Exam question 4 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three ho…

How did the brothers respond to Cinderlad's account of the night's events?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brothers, Cinderlad · What happens: do, respond, account · To what, where: events

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1491 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three horses caught and a knight on the glass hill» 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	How	how	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	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 respond	nsubj
5	respond	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 account	case
7	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 account	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Cinderlad	case
9	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 respond	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 events	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 events	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 night	case
14	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 account	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				tree rules
2	respond speech: other	present	the brothers		to Cinderlad's account of the night's events	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to account=Theme
3	account		Cinderlad	the night's events		nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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 right answer

They expressed scepticism and derided him

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 expressed	nsubj
2	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	scepticism	scepticism	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expressed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 derided	cc
5	derided	deride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 expressed	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 derided	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	express	past	They	scepticism					vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scepticism=Theme
2	deride	past	They not said here	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

They expressed scepticism and derided him loudly in front of the whole court

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 expressed	nsubj
2	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	scepticism	scepticism	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expressed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 derided	cc
5	derided	deride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 expressed	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 derided	obj
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	5 derided	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 derided	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 court	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 court	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 court	amod
13	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	express	past	They	scepticism					vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scepticism=Theme
2	deride	past	They not said here	him = he		front of the whole court		loudly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

They were amused and disbelieving

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 amused	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 amused	cop
3	amused	amused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 disbelieving	cc
5	disbelieving	disbelieve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 amused	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					amused property	tree rules
2	disbelieve	gerund	They not said here						tree rules

Option 4

They expressed deep scepticism and derided him and his tale of the field all evening

The tree, 15 words

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 expressed	nsubj
2	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scepticism	amod
4	scepticism	scepticism	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expressed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 derided	cc
6	derided	deride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 expressed	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 derided	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tale	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tale	nmod:poss
10	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 derided	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 field	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 field	det
13	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tale	nmod
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 evening	det
15	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expressed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	express	past	They	deep scepticism	evening	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scepticism=Theme
2	deride	past	They not said here	him = he		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	tell		the field			nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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