Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace…

Upon what grounds did the Queen conclude that Snowdrop was still alive?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Snowdrop · What happens: ground, do, conclude, be · To what, where: Queen

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1578 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace and the poisonous comb» 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	Upon	upon	SCONJ	_	3 grounds	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 grounds	nsubj
3	grounds	ground	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 conclude	advcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grounds	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Queen	det
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	conclude	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 alive	mark
9	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 alive	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 alive	cop
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 alive	advmod
12	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 conclude	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 conclude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ground	present					tree rules
2	do	past		the Queen			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality
3	conclude	present					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is	past	Snowdrop		still	alive 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 · ✓ the right answer

the mirror spoke the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mirror	det
2	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 truth	det
5	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the mirror	the truth					tree rules

Option 2

the Huntsman said she lived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Huntsman	det
2	Huntsman	Huntsman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Huntsman						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	live	past	Huntsman						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the dwarfs said so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dwarfs	det
2	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	3 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the dwarfs						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

the mirror told her so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mirror	det
2	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	so	so	ADV	_	3 told	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the mirror		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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