Exam question 2 · Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees…

To what location does the man relocate his household, and for what reason?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man · What happens: relocate · To what, where: household

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1546 «Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees death, but the voice still finds his family» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 relocate	obl
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 relocate	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 relocate	nsubj
7	relocate	relocate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 household	nmod:poss
9	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 relocate	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reason	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 reason	cc
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 what	case
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 reason	obl
14	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 relocate	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 relocate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	relocate	present · do-support	the man	man's household					tree rules

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

To a land of plenty, to flee hunger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 land	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 land	det
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flee	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 plenty	case
5	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 land	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 flee	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 flee	mark
8	flee	flee	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flee	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	to-infinitive		hunger				to a land of plenty	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hunger=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To a land without death, to escape mortality

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 land	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 land	det
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 escape	obl
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 death	case
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 land	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 escape	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 escape	mark
8	escape	escape	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	mortality	mortality	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 escape	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	to-infinitive		mortality				to a land without death	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mortality=Initial_Location

Option 3

To a land without death, to escape mortality and the grave altogether

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 land	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 land	det
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 escape	obl
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 death	case
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 land	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 escape	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 escape	mark
8	escape	escape	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	mortality	mortality	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 escape	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grave	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 grave	det
12	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mortality	conj
13	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	8 escape	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	to-infinitive		mortality and the grave				to a land without death; altogether property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mortality=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

To a land without death, to escape mortality, after the whole village had fallen ill

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 land	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 land	det
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 escape	obl
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 death	case
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 land	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 escape	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 escape	mark
8	escape	escape	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	mortality	mortality	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 escape	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fallen	punct
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 fallen	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 village	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 village	amod
14	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fallen	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fallen	aux
16	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 escape	conj
17	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fallen	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	to-infinitive		mortality				to a land without death	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mortality=Initial_Location
2	fall	past · perfect	the whole village					ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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