Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Klaus and Big Klaus: Little…

Identify the moral lesson conveyed by the host's conduct at the inn.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, host · What happens: identify, convey, conduct · To what, where: moral lesson, inn

This is exam question 4 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lesson	det
3	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lesson	amod
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lesson	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	10 conduct	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 host	det
8	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conduct	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 host	case
10	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conveyed	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 inn	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 inn	det
13	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conduct	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the moral lesson			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lesson=Theme
2	convey	participle		the moral lesson not said here		by the host's conduct at the inn	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	conduct		the host		the inn		nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent at=place

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 · ✓ the right answer

Anger leads to ruin and deception

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leads	nsubj
2	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 ruin	mark
4	ruin	ruin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 leads	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 deception	cc
6	deception	deception	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ruin	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	present	Anger						vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
2	ruin	to-infinitive	Anger not said here						vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Greed is bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greed	greed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bad	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bad	cop
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Greed					bad property	tree rules

Option 3

Honesty is always the best policy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 policy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 policy	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 policy	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 policy	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 policy	amod
6	policy	policy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Honesty	the best policy				always property	tree rules

Option 4

Be kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Be	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	imperative	you not said here					kind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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