Exam question 3 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13…

Who relieved Jack of the snuff-box, and what consequence followed for the castle?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: consequence · What happens: relieve, follow · To what, where: Jack

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1954 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13: Jack wins a castle, loses it, and sets out to find it» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 relieved	nsubj
2	relieved	relieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 relieved	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 box	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 box	det
6	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 box	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 snuff	punct
8	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 relieved	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 followed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 followed	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 followed	obj
12	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 followed	nsubj
13	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 relieved	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 castle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 castle	det
16	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 followed	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 relieved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	relieve	past		Jack				of the snuff box	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer jack=Source of box=Theme
2	follow	past	consequence					for the castle	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Theme for castle=Attribute

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 valet, who burned the castle to ashes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 valet	det
2	valet	valet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burned	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 burned	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 burned	nsubj
5	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 castle	det
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burned	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 ashes	case
9	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	the valet	the castle				to ashes	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent castle=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the gardener, who hid the castle in the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hid	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hid	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 hid	nsubj
5	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 castle	det
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hid	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hills	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hills	det
10	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	the gardener	the castle		the hills			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent castle=Patient in hill=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the valet, who caused the castle to be removed across the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 valet	det
2	valet	valet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caused	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 caused	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 caused	nsubj
5	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 castle	det
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caused	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	10 removed	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 removed	aux:pass
10	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 castle	acl
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 removed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past	the valet	the castle					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition castle=Patient
2	remove	to-infinitive · passive	the valet not said here	the castle not said here		the sea			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»

Option 4

the valet, who sank it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 valet	det
2	valet	valet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sank	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sank	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sank	nsubj
5	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	the valet	it					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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