Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, part 3: the girl g…

What conclusion did the gentleman reach concerning the farmer's household in the cellar?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: conclusion · What happens: reach, concern · To what, where: household, cellar

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1944 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, part 3: the girl guesses the imp's name, and the sillies begin their troubles» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 conclusion	det
2	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reach	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reach	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gentleman	det
5	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reach	nsubj
6	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 reach	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 farmer	det
9	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 household	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 farmer	case
11	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 concerning	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 cellar	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cellar	det
14	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 concerning	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 reach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past · do-support	what conclusion						tree rules
2	concern	gerund	what conclusion not said here	the farmer's household		the cellar			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus household=Experiencer

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

that they were sillies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 sillies	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sillies	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sillies	cop
4	sillies	silly	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	sillies					tree rules

Option 2

that they were all quite sensible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 sensible	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sensible	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sensible	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 sensible	advmod
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 sensible	advmod
6	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					all, sensible property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

that they were three great fools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 fools	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fools	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fools	cop
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 fools	nummod
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fools	amod
6	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	three great fools					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

that they were three great sillies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 sillies	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sillies	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sillies	cop
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sillies	nummod
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sillies	amod
6	sillies	silly	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	three great sillies					tree rules

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