Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow and the Carter: the bird'…

Which character first proposed a quick death for the sparrow, and was she overruled?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: character · What happens: propose, overrule · To what, where: quick death, character

This is exam question 4 of lesson 732 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow and the Carter: the bird's revenge, then the twelve dancing princesses begin» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proposed	nsubj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 proposed	advmod
4	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 death	det
6	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 death	amod
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proposed	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 sparrow	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sparrow	det
10	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proposed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 overruled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 overruled	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 overruled	aux:pass
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 overruled	nsubj
15	overruled	overrule	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 proposed	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 proposed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past	which character	a quick death				for the sparrow; first property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme
2	overrule	past · passive		character					tree rules

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 right answer

the carter's wife proposed it, and the carter overruled her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 carter	det
2	carter	carter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 carter	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proposed	nsubj
5	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 proposed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 overruled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 overruled	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 carter	det
10	carter	carter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 overruled	nsubj
11	overruled	overrule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proposed	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 overruled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past	the carter's wife	carter					vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	overrule	past	the carter	wife					tree rules

Option 2

the sparrow proposed it, and the wife agreed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sparrow	det
2	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proposed	nsubj
3	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 proposed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 agreed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 agreed	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wife	det
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 agreed	nsubj
9	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 proposed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past	the sparrow	it					vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	agree speech: agree	past	the wife						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

the carter's wife proposed a quick death for the sparrow at once, and the carter firmly overruled her

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 carter	det
2	carter	carter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 carter	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proposed	nsubj
5	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 death	det
7	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 death	amod
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proposed	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 sparrow	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sparrow	det
11	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proposed	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 proposed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 overruled	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 overruled	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 carter	det
17	carter	carter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 overruled	nsubj
18	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	19 overruled	advmod
19	overruled	overrule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proposed	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 overruled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past	the carter's wife	a quick death				for the sparrow	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme
2	overrule	past	the carter	wife				firmly property	tree rules

Option 4

the carter's wife proposed it, but he refused

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 carter	det
2	carter	carter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 carter	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proposed	nsubj
5	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 proposed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 refused	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 refused	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 refused	nsubj
10	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proposed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past	the carter's wife	carter					vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	refuse	past	he						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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