Exam question 3 · Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees…

Which phrase best characterises the wife's response to the summons?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: phrase · What happens: characteris · To what, where: response

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 phrase	det
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 characterises	nsubj
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 characterises	advmod
4	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wife	det
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 response	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 wife	case
8	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 characterises	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 summons	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 summons	det
11	summons	summon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 response	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	characteris	present	which phrase	the wife's response				to the summons; well property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Feigned compliance, then renewed flight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feigned	feign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 compliance	amod
2	compliance	compliance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flight	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 renewed	advmod
5	renewed	renew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 flight	amod
6	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 compliance	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feign	participle							vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	renew	participle					then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Fake agreement, then new escape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 agreement	amod
2	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 escape	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 new	advmod
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 escape	amod
6	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 agreement	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Sincere obedience, then sudden rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sincere	sincere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 obedience	amod
2	obedience	obedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rest	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sudden	advmod
5	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rest	amod
6	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 obedience	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Feigned compliance, then renewed flight, and finally a bitter silence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feigned	feign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 compliance	amod
2	compliance	compliance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flight	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 renewed	advmod
5	renewed	renew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 flight	amod
6	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 compliance	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 silence	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 silence	cc
9	finally	finally	ADV	_	12 silence	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 silence	det
11	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 silence	amod
12	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 compliance	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feign	participle							vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	renew	participle					then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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