Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen: the false huntsm…

What was the response of the lion to the king's final scepticism?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: response · What happens: be

This is exam question 2 of lesson 776 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen: the false huntsmen are unmasked and the king weds his true bride» 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 response	det
4	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 lion	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 response	nmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	13 scepticism	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 scepticism	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 king	case
12	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 scepticism	amod
13	scepticism	scepticism	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lion	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the response of the lion to the king's final scepticism						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

He maintained that the huntsmen had restrained themselves

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 maintained	nsubj
2	maintained	maintain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 restrained	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 huntsmen	det
5	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 restrained	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 restrained	aux
7	restrained	restrain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 maintained	ccomp
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 restrained	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	maintain	past	He						vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	restrain	past · perfect · passive		the huntsmen					tree rules

Option 2

He claimed the peas had slipped away

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 claimed	nsubj
2	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peas	det
4	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 slipped	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slipped	aux
6	slipped	slip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 claimed	ccomp
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 slipped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	slip away	past · perfect	the peas					away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

He insisted the huntsmen were men

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 insisted	nsubj
2	insisted	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 huntsmen	det
4	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 men	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 men	cop
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 insisted	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	insist speech: other	past	He						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the huntsmen	men					tree rules

Option 4

He maintained that the huntsmen had restrained themselves from wrongdoing and were honest

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 maintained	nsubj
2	maintained	maintain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 restrained	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 huntsmen	det
5	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 restrained	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 restrained	aux
7	restrained	restrain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 maintained	ccomp
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 restrained	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 wrongdoing	case
10	wrongdoing	wrongdoing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 restrained	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 honest	cc
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 honest	cop
13	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 maintained	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	maintain	past	He				vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	restrain	past · perfect · passive		the huntsmen	wrongdoing		tree rules
3	is	past	He not said here			honest property	tree rules

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