Exam question 2 · Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woo…

How did the Woodman respond when the golden axe was first offered to him?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, offer · To what, where: Woodman respond, golden axe, him

This is exam question 2 of lesson 372 «Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woodman gets all three axes» 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 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 respond	det
4	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 respond	compound
5	respond	respond	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 offered	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 axe	det
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 axe	amod
9	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 offered	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 offered	aux:pass
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 offered	advmod
12	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 did	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 offered	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Woodman respond					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respond=Eventuality
2	offer	past · passive		the golden axe	him = he			first property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to he=Goal

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 · ✓ the right answer

He declared that it was not his axe.

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 declared	nsubj
2	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 axe	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 axe	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 axe	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 axe	advmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 axe	nmod:poss
8	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 declared	ccomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 declared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	He						vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	past	it	his axe					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He declared that it was not his axe, though the god offered it again and again.

The tree, 16 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 declared	nsubj
2	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 axe	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 axe	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 axe	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 axe	advmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 axe	nmod:poss
8	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 declared	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 offered	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 offered	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 god	det
12	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 offered	nsubj
13	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 declared	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 offered	obj
15	again	again	ADV	_	13 offered	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 again	cc
17	again	again	ADV	_	15 again	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 declared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	He			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	past	it	his axe		tree rules
3	offer	past	the god	axe	again	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

He stated that it was someone else's.

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 stated	nsubj
2	stated	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 someone	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 someone	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 someone	cop
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 stated	obl
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 someone	advmod
8	's	's	PART	_	6 someone	case
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					's someone; else property	tree rules

Option 4

He claimed the axe was not his own.

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 claimed	nsubj
2	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 axe	det
4	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 own	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 own	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 own	advmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 claimed	ccomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 claimed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past	the axe					own property	tree rules

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