Exam question 3 · Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the ma…

What explanation did Dame Ilse offer for her husband's absence on the first evening?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: explanation, husband · What happens: do, absent · To what, where: Dame offer

This is exam question 3 of lesson 687 «Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the magic root, steals the gold, and Lucia gets a suitor» 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	3 did	obj
2	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Dame	Dame	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 offer	compound
5	Ilse	Ilse	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Dame	flat
6	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	11 absence	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 husband	nmod:poss
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 absence	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 husband	case
11	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 evening	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 evening	det
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 evening	amod
15	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	explanation	Dame offer			evening	for explanation's husband's absence	tree rules
2	absent		explanation's husband						nom absence «state 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 was at 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	5 mill	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mill	cop
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 mill	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mill	det
5	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			the mill			tree rules

Option 2

that he had been sent to the mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 sent	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sent	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 sent	aux:pass
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 mill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mill	det
8	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · perfect · passive		he		the mill			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to mill=Destination

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

that he had idled in some tavern

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 idled	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 idled	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 idled	aux
4	idled	idle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 tavern	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 tavern	det
7	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 idled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	idle	past · perfect	he			some tavern			tree rules

Option 4

that he had gone to the market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 market	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 market	det
7	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	he			the market			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial_Location

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