Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, part 24: the bell draws…

How does the king's son respond to the poor boy's indication that the bell lies to the right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: bell, poor boy · What happens: do, lie, indicate · To what, where: son respond

This is exam question 2 of lesson 297 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, part 24: the bell draws the town into the wood, and only a few go on» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 respond	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 respond	compound
7	respond	respond	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	13 indication	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 indication	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 boy	case
13	indication	indication	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 lies	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bell	det
16	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lies	nsubj
17	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 does	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 right	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 right	det
20	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lies	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present		the king's son respond	to the poor boy's indication	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respond=Eventuality
2	lie	present	the bell		to the right	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	indicate		the poor boy			nom indication «communication transitive»: poss=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

he follows the boy's 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 follows	nsubj
2	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 words	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 boy	case
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 follows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	he	the boy's words					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	word		the boy						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

he thanks the poor boy and then sends a servant to find the bell instead

The tree, 15 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 thanks	nsubj
2	thanks	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thanks	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sends	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 sends	advmod
8	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thanks	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 servant	det
10	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sends	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 find	mark
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sends	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bell	det
14	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 find	obj
15	instead	instead	ADV	_	12 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present	he		the poor boy			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme
2	send	present	he not said here	a servant		then		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme
3	find	to-infinitive	he not said here	the bell			instead property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he proceeds upon his own course

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 proceeds	nsubj
2	proceeds	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 course	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 course	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 course	amod
6	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proceeds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proceed	present	he					upon his own course	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he decides to take the boy's advice and walks onward to the right side of the wood

The tree, 18 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 decides	nsubj
2	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 take	mark
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 decides	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 advice	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 boy	case
8	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 walks	cc
10	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 decides	conj
11	onward	onward	ADV	_	10 walks	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 side	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 side	det
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 side	amod
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walks	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 wood	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wood	det
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 side	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	decide	present	he			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the boy's advice		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme
3	walk	present	he not said here		to the right side of the wood result; onward property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result

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