Exam question 4 · Grimm's Household Tales, Clever Hans, part 50: Hans rings…

Which statement correctly sets out the agreement reached between Hans and the minister?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: statement, agreement · What happens: set out, reach · To what, where: Hans

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sets	nsubj
3	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	4 sets	advmod
4	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 sets	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 agreement	det
7	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reached	nsubj
8	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sets	ccomp
9	between	between	ADP	_	10 Hans	case
10	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 reached	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 minister	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 minister	det
13	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Hans	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set out	present	which statement					correctly property	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	reach	past	the agreement	Hans and the minister					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent han=Theme

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

Hans would labour from dusk to dawn with two hours for sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 labour	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 labour	aux
3	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 dusk	case
5	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 labour	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 dawn	case
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 labour	nmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 hours	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hours	nummod
10	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 labour	nmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 sleep	case
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hours	nmod

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

Option 2

Hans would labour from dawn to dusk with two hours of rest at midday and a double wage paid each Sunday for the extra work

The tree, 25 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 labour	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 labour	aux
3	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 labour	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 dusk	case
7	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dawn	nmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 hours	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hours	nummod
10	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 labour	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 rest	case
12	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hours	nmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 midday	case
14	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rest	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wage	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wage	det
17	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wage	amod
18	wage	wage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 labour	conj
19	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 wage	acl
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 Sunday	det
21	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 paid	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 work	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 work	det
24	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 work	amod
25	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	participle		a double wage not said here			sunday	for the extra work	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for work=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hans would labour from dawn to dusk, with an hour after breakfast and an hour after dinner for sleep

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 labour	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 labour	aux
3	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 labour	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 dusk	case
7	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dawn	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hour	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 hour	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hour	det
11	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 labour	conj
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 breakfast	case
13	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hour	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hour	cc
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hour	det
16	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 labour	conj
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 dinner	case
18	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 labour	nmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 sleep	case
20	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dinner	nmod

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

Option 4

Hans would labour from dawn to dusk, with an hour after breakfast and an hour after dinner for sleep, and also keep the church bells rung every night at midnight

The tree, 30 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 labour	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 labour	aux
3	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 labour	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 dusk	case
7	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dawn	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hour	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 hour	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hour	det
11	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 labour	conj
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 breakfast	case
13	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hour	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hour	cc
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hour	det
16	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 labour	conj
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 dinner	case
18	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 labour	nmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 sleep	case
20	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dinner	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 keep	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 keep	cc
23	also	also	ADV	_	24 keep	advmod
24	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 labour	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bells	det
26	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bells	compound
27	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 rung	nsubj
28	rung	rung	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 keep	ccomp
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rung	obl:unmarked
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 midnight	case
32	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	infinitive							tree rules
2	rung	present	the church bells				midnight; night		tree rules

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