Exam question 4 · Danish Fairy Tales, Clever Jesper, part 37: Jesper herds a…

Which of the king's remarks indicates his intention to judge the completion of the tub?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: indicate, judge, remark, intend, complete · To what, where: intention, completion, tub

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1786 «Danish Fairy Tales, Clever Jesper, part 37: Jesper herds a hundred hares and collects three strange payments» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 indicates	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 remarks	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remarks	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 indicates	obl
7	indicates	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 intention	nmod:poss
9	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 indicates	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 judge	mark
11	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 indicates	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 completion	det
13	completion	completion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 judge	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 tub	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tub	det
16	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 completion	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 indicates	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	indicate	present		king's intention	of the king's remarks	tree rules
2	judge	to-infinitive		the completion of the tub		vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent completion=Value
3	remark		the king			nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=agent
4	intend		king			nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
5	complete			the tub		nom completion «act transitive»: of=patient

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

It is for me to decide here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 me	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 me	cop
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 decide	mark
6	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 me	acl
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 decide	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for me	tree rules
2	decide	to-infinitive				here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That is my part of the business

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 part	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 part	cop
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 part	nmod:poss
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 business	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 business	det
7	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	my part				of the business	tree rules

Option 3

My part

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 part	nmod:poss
2	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

That is mine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 mine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mine	cop
3	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	mine					tree rules

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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