Exam question 4 · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Maiden Bright-eye: the duck's…

What was the relationship between the stepmother's daughter and Maiden Bright-eye when the ship was at sea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ship · What happens: be · To what, where: relationship, sea

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1663 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Maiden Bright-eye: the duck's secret and the wicked sister's end» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 relationship	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 relationship	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 relationship	det
4	relationship	relationship	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	between	between	ADP	_	9 daughter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stepmother	det
7	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 daughter	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 stepmother	case
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 relationship	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Maiden	cc
11	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 relationship	conj
12	Bright	Bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Maiden	flat
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 eye	punct
14	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Maiden	appos
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 sea	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ship	det
17	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sea	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sea	cop
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 sea	case
20	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 relationship	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 relationship	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the relationship and Maiden				between the stepmother's daughter	tree rules
2	is	past	the ship			sea			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 · ← Mova's choice

She was a kind older sister who tried to help her

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	6 sister	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sister	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sister	compound
5	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 sister	amod
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 tried	nsubj
8	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sister	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 help	mark
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tried	xcomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past	She	kind older sister		tree rules
2	try	past	kind older sister			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	kind older sister not said here		her = she	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She was the stepsister who pushed her into the water

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	4 stepsister	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stepsister	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stepsister	det
4	stepsister	stepsister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 pushed	nsubj
6	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stepsister	acl:relcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pushed	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pushed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	She	the stepsister					tree rules
2	push	past	the stepsister	her = she		the water			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into water=Destination

Option 3

Her stepsister

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 stepsister	nmod:poss
2	stepsister	stepsister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

She had been her cruel sister all along

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	6 sister	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sister	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 sister	cop
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sister	nmod:poss
5	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sister	amod
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 along	advmod
8	along	along	ADV	_	6 sister	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect	She	her cruel sister				along property	tree rules

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