Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty…

What precisely did the hostess conspire with the monk to effect?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hostess · What happens: conspire

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2016 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty and the lord's purse, then a haunted cabin and a man in a box» 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	6 conspire	obj
2	precisely	precisely	ADV	_	6 conspire	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 conspire	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hostess	det
5	hostess	hostess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conspire	nsubj
6	conspire	conspire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 monk	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 monk	det
9	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conspire	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 effect	mark
11	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conspire	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 conspire	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conspire	past · do-support	the hostess					with the monk; precisely property	tree rules

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

the murder of her husband in his bed while he slept by the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 murder	det
2	murder	murder	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slept	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 husband	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 husband	nmod:poss
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 murder	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 bed	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bed	nmod:poss
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 husband	nmod
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 slept	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 slept	nsubj
11	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 fire	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fire	det
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	the murder of murder's husband in husband's bed					by the fire	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	murder			murder's husband in husband's bed					nom murder «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

the murder of her husband and the merchants in their beds that very night at the inn

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 murder	det
2	murder	murder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 husband	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 husband	nmod:poss
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 murder	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 merchants	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 merchants	det
8	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 murder	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 beds	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 beds	nmod:poss
11	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 murder	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 night	nsubj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 night	advmod
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beds	acl:relcl
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 inn	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 inn	det
17	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 night	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	night		merchants's beds			the inn			tree rules
2	murder			her husband		merchants's beds			nom murder «act transitive»: of=patient in=place

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the murder of her husband in his bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 murder	det
2	murder	murder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 husband	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 husband	nmod:poss
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 murder	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 bed	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bed	nmod:poss
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 murder	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	murder			her husband		husband's bed			nom murder «act transitive»: of=patient in=place

Option 4

to kill the merchants in their sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 kill	mark
2	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 merchants	det
4	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kill	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sleep	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sleep	nmod:poss
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	to-infinitive		the merchants		merchants's sleep			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchant=Theme
2	sleep		merchants = merchant						nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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