Exam question 3 · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the…

State the sequence in which the lass's relatives approached the scaffold before her sweetheart appeared.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, relatives, sweetheart · What happens: state, approach, appear · To what, where: sequence, scaffold

This is exam question 3 of lesson 237 «Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the start of The Black Bull of Norroway: the lad beats the bogles, the lass is saved, a fairy child burns her foot, and a girl sets out for her fortune» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sequence	det
3	sequence	sequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 approached	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lass	det
7	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 relatives	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 lass	case
9	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 approached	nsubj
10	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sequence	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 scaffold	det
12	scaffold	scaffold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 approached	obj
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 appeared	mark
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sweetheart	nmod:poss
15	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 appeared	nsubj
16	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 approached	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the sequence		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sequence=Topic
2	approach	past	the lass's relatives	the scaffold	the sequence	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scaffold=Theme
3	appear	past	her sweetheart			vn appear-48.1.1 «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

mother and aunt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 aunt	cc
3	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, cousin, the priest, and the hangman's wife

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 father	punct
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brother	punct
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sister	punct
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 uncle	punct
9	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 aunt	punct
11	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cousin	punct
13	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 priest	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 priest	det
16	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wife	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wife	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hangman	det
20	hangman	hangman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wife	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 hangman	case
22	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, cousin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 father	punct
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brother	punct
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sister	punct
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 uncle	punct
9	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 aunt	punct
11	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cousin	punct
13	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, cousin, grandmother, and the neighbours

The tree, 11 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 father	punct
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brother	punct
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sister	punct
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 uncle	punct
9	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 aunt	punct
11	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cousin	punct
13	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grandmother	punct
15	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mother	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 neighbours	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 neighbours	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 neighbours	det
19	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 mother	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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