Exam question 4 · The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets…

With reference to the text, what sentiment does the Water-rat attribute to friendship?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sentiment · What happens: do · To what, where: Water rat attribute

This is exam question 4 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	9 does	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	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	nsubj
9	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 attribute	det
11	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 attribute	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Water	punct
13	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 attribute	compound
14	attribute	attribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 friendship	case
16	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 attribute	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	sentiment	the Water rat attribute				with reference to the text; to friendship	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 right answer

That friendship is higher than love

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 friendship	det
2	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 higher	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 higher	cop
4	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 love	case
6	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 higher	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that friendship					than love; high property	tree rules

Option 2

That friendship is a gift which only the wise can truly understand and keep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 friendship	det
2	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gift	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gift	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 gift	det
5	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 understand	obj
7	only	only	ADV	_	12 understand	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wise	det
9	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 understand	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 understand	aux
11	truly	truly	ADV	_	12 understand	advmod
12	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gift	acl:relcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 keep	cc
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 understand	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that friendship	a gift		tree rules
2	understand	can	the wise	a gift	truly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
3	keep	infinitive	the wise not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

That love is stronger than wealth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 love	det
2	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stronger	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stronger	cop
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 wealth	case
6	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stronger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that love					than wealth; strong property	tree rules

Option 4

That friendship must always come before any love or family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 friendship	det
2	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 love	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 love	det
8	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 family	cc
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 love	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	must	that friendship			any love or family		always property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before love=Location

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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