Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick…

Which condition did the suitor Hans formally stipulate before consenting to the marriage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition, Hans · What happens: do, stipulate, consent · To what, where: suitor

This is exam question 1 of lesson 757 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick-axe and wins Hans» 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 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 suitor	det
5	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stipulate	nsubj
7	formally	formally	ADV	_	8 stipulate	advmod
8	stipulate	stipulate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 suitor	acl:relcl
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 consenting	mark
10	consenting	consent	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 stipulate	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 marriage	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 marriage	det
13	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 consenting	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	which condition	the suitor		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suitor=Eventuality
2	stipulate	infinitive	Hans	the suitor not said here	formally property	tree rules
3	consent	gerund	Hans not said here		to the marriage	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to marriage=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 · ← Mova's choice

That Elsie should be genuinely intelligent and never weep in cellars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Elsie	det
2	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 intelligent	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 intelligent	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 intelligent	cop
5	genuinely	genuinely	ADV	_	6 intelligent	advmod
6	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 weep	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 weep	advmod
9	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 intelligent	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 cellars	case
11	cellars	cellar	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 weep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	that Elsie					genuinely, intelligent property	tree rules
2	not weep	infinitive	that Elsie not said here					in cellars	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cellar=Theme

Option 2

That Elsie should be genuinely intelligent, graceful, and well-read in all the old books of the village

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Elsie	det
2	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 intelligent	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 intelligent	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 intelligent	cop
5	genuinely	genuinely	ADV	_	6 intelligent	advmod
6	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 graceful	punct
8	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 intelligent	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 read	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 read	cc
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 read	advmod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 well	punct
13	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 intelligent	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 books	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 books	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 books	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 books	amod
18	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 read	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 village	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 village	det
21	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 books	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	should	that Elsie		genuinely, intelligent property	tree rules
2	be		that Elsie not said here			tree rules
3	read	participle	that Elsie not said here	all old books of the village	well property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That Elsie should be genuinely intelligent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Elsie	det
2	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 intelligent	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 intelligent	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 intelligent	cop
5	genuinely	genuinely	ADV	_	6 intelligent	advmod
6	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	that Elsie					genuinely, intelligent property	tree rules

Option 4

That Elsie should be quite hardworking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Elsie	det
2	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hardworking	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 hardworking	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 hardworking	advmod
6	hardworking	hardworking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Elsie	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	should		hardworking					tree rules

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