Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Klaus and Big Klaus: Little…

What is the principal consequence of Big Klaus's attack upon the bed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Big Klaus · What happens: be, attack · To what, where: principal consequence

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1729 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Klaus and Big Klaus: Little Klaus sells the sexton and then his dead grandmother for money» 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	5 consequence	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 consequence	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 consequence	amod
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 attack	case
7	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Klaus	amod
8	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 attack	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Klaus	case
10	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 bed	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bed	det
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 attack	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the principal consequence				of Big Klaus's attack upon the bed	tree rules
2	attack		Big Klaus					upon the bed	nom attack «act transitive»: poss=agent upon=obl

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 hurts Little Klaus

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 hurts	nsubj
2	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Klaus	amod
4	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hurts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present	He	Little Klaus					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer klaus=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He kills the grandmother by mistake

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 kills	nsubj
2	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grandmother	det
4	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kills	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 mistake	case
6	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kills	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	He	the grandmother				by mistake	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme

Option 3

He kills the grandmother by mistake, thinking she is Klaus

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 kills	nsubj
2	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grandmother	det
4	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kills	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 mistake	case
6	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kills	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thinking	punct
8	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kills	conj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 Klaus	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Klaus	cop
11	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 thinking	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill	present	He	the grandmother	by mistake	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme
2	think speech: other	gerund	He not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	she	Klaus		tree rules

Option 4

He breaks the host's expensive bed frame

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 breaks	nsubj
2	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 host	det
4	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frame	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 host	case
6	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 frame	amod
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frame	compound
8	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breaks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	He	the host's expensive bed frame					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frame=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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