Exam question 4 · Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid's son: Hans makes th…

To which relation did Hans return at the conclusion of the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hans · What happens: return, conclude · To what, where: conclusion, narrative

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1633 «Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid's son: Hans makes the lake's fish flood the squire's yard and returns with gold from Purgatory» 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	_	3 relation	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 relation	det
3	relation	relation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 return	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 return	aux
5	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 return	nsubj
6	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 conclusion	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 conclusion	det
9	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 return	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 narrative	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 narrative	det
12	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 conclusion	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 return	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past · do-support	Hans			the conclusion of the narrative		to which relation result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to relation=Result
2	conclude			the narrative					nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

His mother, the Mermaid, down in the deep lake waters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Mermaid	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mermaid	det
5	Mermaid	Mermaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mother	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 waters	punct
7	down	down	ADV	_	12 waters	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 waters	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 waters	det
10	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 waters	amod
11	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 waters	compound
12	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mother	conj

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

Option 2

His sister, the fish queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 queen	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queen	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 queen	compound
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sister	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His mother, the Mermaid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Mermaid	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mermaid	det
5	Mermaid	Mermaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mother	appos

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

His mother, the Mermaid, who lived beneath the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Mermaid	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mermaid	det
5	Mermaid	Mermaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mother	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	11 lake	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lake	det
11	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	His mother			the lake			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath lake=Location

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