Exam question 3 · Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 2…

Identify the means by which the shoemaker's wife was made to appear deceased upon the second occasion.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, the, wife · What happens: identify, mean, make, appear, decease · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1639 «Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 28: the robbers buy the donkey and the guitar and are fooled again» 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 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	ccomp
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 made	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shoemaker	det
7	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wife	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 shoemaker	case
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux:pass
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 means	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 appear	mark
13	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 made	xcomp
14	deceased	decease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 appear	xcomp
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 occasion	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 occasion	det
17	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 occasion	amod
18	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 deceased	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mean	present	the			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	past · passive		the shoemaker's wife		tree rules
4	appear	to-infinitive	the shoemaker's wife not said here			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	decease	participle	the shoemaker's wife not said here		upon the second occasion	vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=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

A bladder of blood tied about her neck, then stabbed with a knife by her husband

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bladder	det
2	bladder	bladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 blood	case
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bladder	nmod
5	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bladder	acl
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 neck	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 neck	nmod:poss
8	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tied	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stabbed	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 stabbed	advmod
11	stabbed	stab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bladder	acl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 knife	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 knife	det
14	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stabbed	obl
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 husband	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 husband	nmod:poss
17	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		a bladder of blood not said here				about her neck	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	stab	participle		a bladder of blood not said here			then	with a knife; by her husband	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with knife=Instrument

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A bladder of blood tied about her neck and stabbed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bladder	det
2	bladder	bladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 blood	case
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bladder	nmod
5	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bladder	acl
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 neck	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 neck	nmod:poss
8	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tied	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stabbed	cc
10	stabbed	stab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tied	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		a bladder of blood not said here				about her neck	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	stab	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A bladder of red liquid tied about her neck and then stabbed by Joseph in the kitchen

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bladder	det
2	bladder	bladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 liquid	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 liquid	case
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 liquid	amod
5	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 liquid	acl
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 neck	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 neck	nmod:poss
9	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tied	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stabbed	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 stabbed	advmod
12	stabbed	stab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 liquid	conj
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 Joseph	case
14	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 stabbed	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 kitchen	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 kitchen	det
17	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		red liquid not said here				about bladder's neck	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	stab	participle				the kitchen	then	by Joseph	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She was struck on the head quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 struck	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 struck	aux:pass
3	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 head	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 head	det
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 struck	obl
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	3 struck	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past · passive		She				on the head; quietly property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument on head=Patient

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