Exam question 4 · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, drea…

What was the principal consequence of the strong scent of the red flower upon the protagonist?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, scent · To what, where: principal consequence, red flower

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1789 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, dreams for seven years, and finds his mother sad» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past 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	_	9 scent	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 scent	det
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 scent	amod
9	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 flower	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flower	det
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flower	amod
13	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scent	nmod
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 protagonist	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 protagonist	det
16	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal consequence				of the strong scent of the red flower; upon the protagonist	tree rules
2	scent			the red flower					nom scent «cognition 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

He began to sneeze violently and then suddenly awoke

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 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sneeze	mark
4	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	violently	violently	ADV	_	4 sneeze	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 awoke	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 awoke	advmod
8	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	9 awoke	advmod
9	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	He			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sneeze	to-infinitive	He not said here		violently property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	awake	past	He not said here	then	suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He dreamed of a cat and then woke in the market

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 dreamed	nsubj
2	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cat	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dreamed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 woke	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 woke	advmod
8	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dreamed	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 market	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 market	det
11	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 woke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dream	past	He					of a cat	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	wake	past	He not said here			the market	then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He began to sneeze and awoke

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 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sneeze	mark
4	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 awoke	cc
6	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	begin	past	He	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sneeze	to-infinitive	He not said here	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	awake	past	He not said here	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He started coughing, then woke

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 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	coughing	cough	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 started	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 woke	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 woke	advmod
6	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 started	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	start	past	He		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cough	gerund	He not said here		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wake	past	He not said here	then	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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