Exam question 3 · English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a st…

Subsequent to the market visit, for what duration did her affliction persist?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: affliction, duration · What happens: persist, afflict

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1974 «English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a stolen look that costs an eye» 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	Subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 visit	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 visit	det
4	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visit	compound
5	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Subsequent	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 persist	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 persist	obl
9	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 persist	aux
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 affliction	nmod:poss
12	affliction	affliction	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 persist	nsubj
13	persist	persist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Subsequent	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Subsequent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	persist	past · do-support	duration's affliction						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	afflict		duration						nom affliction «state transitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

for the rest of the year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 rest	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rest	det
3	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 year	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rest	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

until the day of her death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	until	until	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 death	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 death	nmod:poss
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die		her = she						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

for the rest of her life and every day after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 rest	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rest	det
3	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 life	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 life	nmod:poss
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rest	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 day	cc
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rest	conj
10	after	after	ADV	_	9 day	advmod

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

Option 4

until the end of all her days and beyond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	until	until	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 days	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 days	det:predet
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 days	nmod:poss
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 end	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 beyond	cc
9	beyond	beyond	ADV	_	7 days	conj

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

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