Exam question 3 · Wonder Tales, The Witch in the Stone Boat, part 63: a Witc…

How did the nurse respond to the woman's nocturnal visits?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: woman · What happens: do, visit · To what, where: nurse respond

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1739 «Wonder Tales, The Witch in the Stone Boat, part 63: a Witch swaps places with the Queen and steals her away on a stone boat» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 respond	det
4	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 respond	compound
5	respond	respond	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	11 visits	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 visits	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 woman	case
10	nocturnal	nocturnal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 visits	amod
11	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the nurse respond				to the woman's nocturnal visits	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respond=Eventuality
2	visit		the woman						nom visit «act transitive»: poss=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

she was frightened at first, then grew used to the visits and told no one at all

The tree, 17 words

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 frightened	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 frightened	aux:pass
3	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 frightened	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grew	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 grew	advmod
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 frightened	conj
9	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 frightened	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 visits	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 visits	det
12	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 used	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 frightened	conj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive	she				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	grow	past			then		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	use	participle				to the visits	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	no one	all			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient

Option 2

she was frightened but told no one, not even the King, for many nights

The tree, 14 words

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 frightened	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 frightened	aux:pass
3	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 frightened	conj
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 King	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 King	advmod
10	even	even	ADV	_	12 King	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 frightened	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 nights	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 nights	case
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nights	amod
16	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 frightened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		she			night	the King obl	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past		no one					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient

Option 3

she was calm but told her husband

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 calm	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 calm	cop
3	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 calm	conj
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 husband	nmod:poss
7	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					calm property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	she not said here		her husband				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she was frightened but told no one

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 frightened	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 frightened	aux:pass
3	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 frightened	conj
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		she					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past		no one					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient

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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