Exam question 2 · Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 7: Hans gives away…

What was the Miller's appraisal of Hans upon the following morning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, follow · To what, where: appraisal

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2037 «Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 7: Hans gives away everything and works until he is worn out» 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 appraisal	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 appraisal	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Miller	det
4	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 appraisal	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Miller	case
6	appraisal	appraisal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Hans	case
8	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 appraisal	nmod
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 morning	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 morning	det
11	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 morning	amod
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appraisal	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 appraisal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Miller's appraisal			morning	of Hans	tree rules
2	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

He termed Hans lazy, sluggish and utterly useless for any work at the mill

The tree, 14 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 termed	nsubj
2	termed	term	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 termed	obj
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 termed	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sluggish	punct
6	sluggish	sluggish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lazy	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 useless	cc
8	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	9 useless	advmod
9	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lazy	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 work	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 work	det
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 useless	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 mill	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mill	det
15	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 work	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	term	past	He	Hans				lazy property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent han=Result

Option 2

He termed Hans lazy and sluggish and a great disgrace to the mill

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 termed	nsubj
2	termed	term	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 termed	obj
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Hans	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sluggish	cc
6	sluggish	sluggish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lazy	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 disgrace	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 disgrace	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 disgrace	amod
10	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Hans	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 mill	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mill	det
13	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 termed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	term	past	He	Hans and a great disgrace				to the mill	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent han=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He termed Hans lazy and sluggish

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 termed	nsubj
2	termed	term	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 termed	obj
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 termed	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sluggish	cc
6	sluggish	sluggish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lazy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	term	past	He	Hans				lazy property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent han=Result

Option 4

He thought Hans was quite slow

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 slow	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slow	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 slow	advmod
6	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Hans					slow property	tree rules

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