Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

What was the nature of the youth's reaction upon overhearing the frogs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nature, reaction, youth · What happens: be, overhear, react · To what, where: frogs

This is exam question 3 of lesson 767 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was: the youth calms the dogs, hears the frogs, and becomes Pope» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nature	det
4	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 reaction	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 youth	det
7	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reaction	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 youth	case
9	reaction	reaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nature	nmod
10	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	11 overhearing	mark
11	overhearing	overhear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 reaction	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 frogs	det
13	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 overhearing	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the nature of the youth's reaction		tree rules
2	overhear	gerund	the youth's reaction not said here	the frogs	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frog=Stimulus
3	react		the youth		nom reaction «process intransitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He became thoughtful and sorrowful

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 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 became	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sorrowful	cc
5	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thoughtful	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	He					thoughtful property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

He was amused at first, then grew pensive and moved to tears

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 amused	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 amused	aux:pass
3	amused	amuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 amused	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grew	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 grew	advmod
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 amused	conj
9	pensive	pensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grew	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 moved	cc
11	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 amused	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 tears	case
13	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	amuse	past · passive	He				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	grow	past			then	pensive property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	move	participle		tears			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to tear=Trajectory

Option 3

He became thoughtful, sorrowful, and deeply troubled by what he had heard

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 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 became	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sorrowful	punct
5	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thoughtful	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 troubled	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 troubled	cc
8	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	9 troubled	advmod
9	troubled	trouble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 became	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 what	case
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 troubled	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heard	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	aux
14	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	become	past	He	thoughtful property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	trouble	participle	He not said here	deeply property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	hear	past · perfect	he		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

He grew bold and very cheerful

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 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grew	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cheerful	cc
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 cheerful	advmod
6	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	He					bold property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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