Exam question 3 · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Ni…

By what means did Niels succeed in gaining the top of the rampart?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Niels · What happens: mean, succeed, gain · To what, where: top

This is exam question 3 of lesson 709 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Niels shoots at three giants and is caught» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 succeed	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 succeed	aux
5	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 succeed	nsubj
6	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 gaining	mark
8	gaining	gain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 succeed	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 top	det
10	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gaining	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 rampart	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rampart	det
13	rampart	rampart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 top	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 succeed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	succeed	past · do-support	Niels		vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	gain	gerund	Niels not said here	the top of the rampart	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=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

He was lifted by a rope and pulley

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	3 lifted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	aux:pass
3	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 rope	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rope	det
6	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lifted	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pulley	cc
8	pulley	pulley	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rope	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	past · passive	a rope and pulley	He					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was thrown upward by a giant

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	3 thrown	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thrown	aux:pass
3	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	upward	upward	ADV	_	3 thrown	advmod
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 giant	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thrown	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past · passive		He				upward property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

A ladder helped him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ladder	det
2	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helped	nsubj
3	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 helped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	a ladder		him = he				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He climbed up

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 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 climbed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	He						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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