Exam question 2 · Danish Fairy Tales, Hadvor and Hermod: Hadvor frees Hermod…

By what agency did Hermod achieve the release of the hall from the two creatures?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hermod · What happens: achieve · To what, where: release, two creatures

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1746 «Danish Fairy Tales, Hadvor and Hermod: Hadvor frees Hermod, and Hermod becomes King» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 achieve	obj
3	agency	agency	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 achieve	aux
5	Hermod	Hermod	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 achieve	nsubj
6	achieve	achieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 release	det
8	release	release	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 achieve	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 hall	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hall	det
11	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 release	nmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 creatures	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 creatures	det
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 creatures	nummod
15	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 achieve	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 achieve	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	achieve	past · do-support	Hermod	the release of the hall		the two creatures			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

By burning them in the great fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 burning	mark
2	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 burning	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fire	amod
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund		them = they		the great fire			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By cutting them in two with his sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 cutting	mark
2	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cutting	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 two	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cutting	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 sword	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sword	nmod:poss
8	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cutting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	gerund		them = they		two		with his sword	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient with sword=Instrument

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

By cutting them in two with a magic sword given to him by the Witch of the island

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 cutting	mark
2	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cutting	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 two	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cutting	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 sword	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sword	det
8	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sword	amod
9	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cutting	obl
10	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sword	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 given	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 Witch	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Witch	det
15	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 given	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 island	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 island	det
18	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Witch	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	gerund		them = they		two		with a magic sword	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient with sword=Instrument
2	give	participle		a magic sword not said here	him = he			by the Witch of the island	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

Option 4

By cutting them in two with his sword and burning the pieces in the fire

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 cutting	mark
2	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cutting	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 two	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cutting	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 sword	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sword	nmod:poss
8	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cutting	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 burning	cc
10	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 cutting	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pieces	det
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 burning	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 fire	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 burning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	gerund		them = they		two		with his sword	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient with sword=Instrument
2	burn	gerund		the pieces		the fire			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent piece=Theme

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