Exam question 2 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the pri…

In what manner did the prince conduct himself when the fox asked for his head?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince, fox · What happens: do, conduct, ask · To what, where: manner, prince

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1636 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the prince beheads the fox, then returns in disguise and wakes the bird» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conduct	nsubj
7	conduct	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 conduct	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 asked	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fox	det
11	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	nsubj
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 conduct	advcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 head	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past			what manner		tree rules
2	conduct	present	the prince	prince			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	the fox			for fox's head	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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 begged the fox to stop

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 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 begged	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stop	mark
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begged	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	He		the fox				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient
2	stop	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

He wept and begged the fox

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 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 begged	cc
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	He						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	beg speech: request	past	He not said here		the fox				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient

Option 3

He declined at once, out of deep loyalty to his friend the fox

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 declined	nsubj
2	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 declined	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 loyalty	punct
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 loyalty	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 loyalty	case
8	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 loyalty	amod
9	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 declined	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 friend	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 friend	nmod:poss
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loyalty	nmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fox	det
14	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 declined	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decline	past	He	the fox		deep loyalty to his friend			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He declined, out of loyalty

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 declined	nsubj
2	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 loyalty	punct
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 loyalty	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 loyalty	case
6	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 declined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decline	past	He			loyalty			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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