Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary,…

What measure did Hudden adopt against the poor man Donald O'Neary?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Hudden · What happens: be, adopt

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1991 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary, part 1: Conall ends his tale, and two greedy farmers kill a poor man's cow» 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	5 adopt	obj
2	measure	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 adopt	aux
4	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 adopt	nsubj
5	adopt	adopt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	against	against	ADP	_	9 man	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 adopt	obl
10	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 man	appos
11	O'Neary	O'Neary	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Donald	flat
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 adopt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present							tree rules
2	adopt	past · do-support	Hudden					against the poor man	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

He decided to take Donald's only cow for himself

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 decided	nsubj
2	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 take	mark
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 decided	xcomp
5	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cow	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Donald	case
7	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cow	amod
8	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	past	He						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	Donald's only cow				for Donald	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cow=Theme for himself=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He adopted the measure of killing Donald's only cow, Daisy

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 adopted	nsubj
2	adopted	adopt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 measure	det
4	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 adopted	obj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 killing	mark
6	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 measure	acl
7	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cow	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Donald	case
9	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cow	amod
10	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 killing	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Daisy	punct
12	Daisy	Daisy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cow	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	adopt	past	He	the measure					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Theme
2	kill	gerund	the measure not said here	Donald's only cow					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme

Option 3

He adopted the measure of sneaking out at midnight and killing poor Donald's only cow, Daisy, in the field

The tree, 20 words

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 adopted	nsubj
2	adopted	adopt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 measure	det
4	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 adopted	obj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 sneaking	mark
6	sneaking	sneak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 measure	acl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 sneaking	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 midnight	case
9	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sneaking	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 killing	cc
11	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 sneaking	conj
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Donald	amod
13	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 cow	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Donald	case
15	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cow	amod
16	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 killing	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Daisy	punct
18	Daisy	Daisy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 cow	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 field	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 field	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 field	det
22	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 adopted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	adopt	past	He	the measure	the field		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Theme
2	sneak out	gerund	the measure not said here			midnight	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	kill	gerund	the measure not said here	poor Donald's only cow			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme

Option 4

He adopted the cruel measure of secretly killing Donald's only cow, Daisy, in the dead of night

The tree, 18 words

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 adopted	nsubj
2	adopted	adopt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 measure	det
4	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 measure	amod
5	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 adopted	obj
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 killing	mark
7	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	8 killing	advmod
8	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 measure	acl
9	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 cow	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Donald	case
11	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cow	amod
12	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 killing	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Daisy	punct
14	Daisy	Daisy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 cow	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dead	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 dead	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dead	det
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 adopted	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 night	case
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dead	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	adopt	past	He	the cruel measure					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Theme
2	kill	gerund	the cruel measure not said here	Donald's only cow				secretly property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme

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