Exam question 3 · English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vin…

What action did Mr. Vinegar perform in order to shelter his wife through the night?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: action, Vinegar · What happens: do, perform, shelter · To what, where: order, wife

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1946 «English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vinegars' gold is traded away piece by piece» 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	3 did	obj
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Vinegar	nmod:desc
5	Vinegar	Vinegar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 perform	nsubj
6	perform	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 order	case
8	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perform	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 shelter	mark
10	shelter	shelter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 perform	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shelter	obj
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 night	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shelter	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	do	past	action				tree rules
2	perform	present	Vinegar Mr.		order		vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	shelter	to-infinitive	Vinegar Mr. not said here	Vinegar's wife		night	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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 · ✓ the right answer

he dragged the door into the tree

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 dragged	nsubj
2	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dragged	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dragged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past	he	the door		the tree			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he dragged the door into the tree and tied it fast with rope

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 dragged	nsubj
2	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dragged	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dragged	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tied	cc
9	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dragged	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tied	obj
11	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 tied	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 rope	case
13	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past	he	the door		the tree			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme
2	tie	past	he not said here	door				with rope; fast property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with rope=Co-Patient

Option 3

he hauled the wooden gate away

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 hauled	nsubj
2	hauled	haul	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gate	amod
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hauled	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	2 hauled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haul	past	he	the wooden gate				away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme

Option 4

he dragged the heavy door up into the tree at night

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 dragged	nsubj
2	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 door	amod
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dragged	obj
6	up	up	ADV	_	2 dragged	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dragged	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dragged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past	he	the heavy door		the tree	night		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme

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