Exam question 2 · Grimm's Household Tales, Clever Hans, part 50: Hans rings…

What was the cause of the servants' disappearance as reported in the text?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: servants · What happens: be, report, disappear · To what, where: cause, disappearance, text

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1799 «Grimm's Household Tales, Clever Hans, part 50: Hans rings the bells, outwits the headless dwarves, then rides off through snow» 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	4 cause	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cause	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cause	det
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 disappearance	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 servants	det
7	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 disappearance	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 servants	case
9	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	nmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 reported	mark
11	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 disappearance	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 text	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 text	det
14	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reported	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the cause		of the servants's disappearance	tree rules
2	report	participle		the servants's disappearance not said here	the text		vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	disappear		the servants				nom disappearance «act intransitive»: 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

Dwarves took them away at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dwarves	dwarve	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 took	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take away	past	Dwarves	them = they			night	away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

The text leaves the cause unexplained, but suspicion fell on the minister, who was seen locking the tower

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 text	det
2	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaves	nsubj
3	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cause	det
5	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaves	obj
6	unexplained	unexplained	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 leaves	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fell	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 fell	cc
9	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	nsubj
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 leaves	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 minister	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 minister	det
13	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seen	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 seen	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	aux:pass
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 minister	acl:relcl
18	locking	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 seen	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tower	det
20	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 locking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	present	the text	the cause		unexplained property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Theme
2	fall	past	suspicion		the minister		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on minister=Location
3	see	past · passive		the minister			tree rules
4	lock	gerund	the minister not said here	the tower			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Patient

Option 3

The text says they fled the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 text	det
2	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fled	nsubj
5	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 village	det
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the text						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	flee	past	they	the village					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme village=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The text leaves the cause unexplained, but suspicion fell on the minister

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 text	det
2	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaves	nsubj
3	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cause	det
5	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaves	obj
6	unexplained	unexplained	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 leaves	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fell	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 fell	cc
9	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	nsubj
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 leaves	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 minister	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 minister	det
13	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	the text	the cause				unexplained property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Theme
2	fall	past	suspicion			the minister			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on minister=Location

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