Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the sol…

What did the hangings state concerning the durability of gilding and hog's leather?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hangings · What happens: do, state, concern · To what, where: durability

This is exam question 2 of lesson 300 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the soldier is found again in a garden, then The Happy Family begins» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hangings	det
4	hangings	hanging	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 state	nsubj
5	state	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 state	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 durability	det
8	durability	durability	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 concerning	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 gilding	case
10	gilding	gilding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 durability	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 leather	cc
12	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leather	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 hog	case
14	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gilding	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	state speech: other	present	the hangings		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	concern	gerund	the hangings not said here	the durability of gilding and hog's leather	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus durability=Experiencer

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 gold is gone but leather stays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gold	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 stays	cc
6	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stays	nsubj
7	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the gold					gone property	tree rules
2	stay	present	leather						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Its gilt is gone, yet the leather remains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 gilt	nmod:poss
2	gilt	gilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 remains	punct
6	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	9 remains	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 leather	det
8	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 remains	nsubj
9	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Its gilt					gone property	tree rules
2	remain	present	the leather						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Gold fades, leather stays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fades	nsubj
2	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stays	punct
4	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stays	nsubj
5	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fades	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	present	Gold						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	stay	present	leather						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The gilding decays, but hog's leather stays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 decays	det
2	gilding	gilding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 decays	compound
3	decays	decay	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stays	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 stays	cc
6	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leather	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 hog	case
8	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stays	nsubj
9	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 decays	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	hog's leather						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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