Exam question 3 · Tales from the Fjeld, Kari Woodengown: the golden shoe and…

Which reason did the Prince give for permitting Kari to attempt the shoe after the others?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reason · What happens: give, permit, attempt · To what, where: Kari, shoe

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1550 «Tales from the Fjeld, Kari Woodengown: the golden shoe and the wedding» 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 reason	det
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj:outer
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 permitting	mark
8	permitting	permit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 give	advcl
9	Kari	Kari	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 permitting	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 attempt	mark
11	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 permitting	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shoe	det
13	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 attempt	obj
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 others	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 others	det
16	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 attempt	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	which reason			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	permit	gerund	which reason not said here	Kari		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kari=Theme
3	attempt	to-infinitive	which reason not said here	the shoe	after the others	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Eventuality

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

All the others had tried it, so Kari might try too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 others	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 others	det
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tried	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tried	aux
5	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tried	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 try	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 try	advmod
9	Kari	Kari	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 try	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 try	aux
11	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tried	conj
12	too	too	ADV	_	11 try	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · perfect	all others	it					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	try	might	Kari						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Since all the women tried, Kari could too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Since	since	SCONJ	_	5 tried	mark
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 women	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 women	det
4	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tried	nsubj
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 could	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tried	punct
7	Kari	Kari	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 could	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	too	too	ADV	_	8 could	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	all women						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

The others had failed, so Kari might try

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 others	det
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 failed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 failed	aux
4	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 try	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 try	advmod
7	Kari	Kari	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 try	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 try	aux
9	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 failed	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	past · perfect	the others						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	try	might	Kari						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

All the others had tried it, so Kari might try too, for the gold shoe fit no one else

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 others	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 others	det
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tried	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tried	aux
5	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tried	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 try	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 try	advmod
9	Kari	Kari	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 try	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 try	aux
11	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tried	parataxis
12	too	too	ADV	_	11 try	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fit	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 shoe	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shoe	det
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shoe	compound
17	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fit	obl
18	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 try	advcl
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fit	obj
21	else	else	ADV	_	20 one	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past · perfect	all others	it		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	try	might	Kari			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	fit	present	Kari not said here	no one	for the gold shoe	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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