Exam question 2 · Gutenberg 540, Renelde the Spinner: Renelde keeps spinning…

Identify the consequence of the Count's rage upon discovering that the spinning continued.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, spinning, Count · What happens: identify, discover, continue, rage · To what, where: consequence

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1569 «Gutenberg 540, Renelde the Spinner: Renelde keeps spinning through soldiers, the Count's rage and the endless nettles, then sews his shroud» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 consequence	det
3	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 rage	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Count	det
6	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 rage	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Count	case
8	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consequence	nmod
9	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	10 discovering	mark
10	discovering	discover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Identify	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 continued	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 spinning	det
13	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 continued	nsubj
14	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 discovering	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the consequence of the Count's rage	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent consequence=Theme
2	discover	gerund	you not said here		vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	continue	past	the spinning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	rage		the Count		nom rage «feeling intransitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

he dragged Renelde away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dragged	nsubj
2	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Renelde	Renelde	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dragged	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 dragged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag away	past	he	Renelde				away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent renelde=Theme

Option 2

he threw the wheel out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wheel	det
4	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	2 threw	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw out	past	he	the wheel					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he broke the wheel into a thousand pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wheel	det
4	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 pieces	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thousand	det
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 pieces	nummod
8	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	he	the wheel				into thousand pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent wheel=Patient into piece=Result

Option 4

he smashed the wheel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smashed	nsubj
2	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wheel	det
4	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smashed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	past	he	the wheel					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme

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