Exam question 2 · The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets…

With reference to the text, what reason does the Miller give for not visiting Hans in winter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Miller · What happens: give, not visit · To what, where: Hans

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2036 «The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets the Miller in spring» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 text	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 does	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 does	obj
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Miller	det
11	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 give	nsubj
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 visiting	mark
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 visiting	advmod
15	visiting	visit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 give	advcl
16	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 visiting	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 winter	case
18	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 visiting	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · do-support	the Miller					with reference to the text	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	not visit	gerund	the Miller not said here	Hans			winter		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent han=Co-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 · ✓ the right answer

That people in trouble should be left alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 left	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 trouble	case
4	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 people	nmod
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 left	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 left	aux:pass
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	should · passive		that people in trouble				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

He says Hans has his own pride

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 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 pride	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pride	amod
7	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	He		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	Hans	Hans's own pride	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pride=Patient
3	pride		Hans		nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

It is raining

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 raining	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 raining	aux
3	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	present · progressive	It						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 4

Because the roads are muddy and cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 muddy	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 roads	det
3	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 muddy	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 muddy	cop
5	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cold	cc
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 muddy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the roads					muddy property	tree rules
2	be		the roads not said here						tree rules

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