Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, By the Almshouse Window, part 2: a pasto…

State the principal reason given by the dead woman for her appearance to the pastor.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: give · To what, where: State principal reason, pastor

This is exam question 3 of lesson 791 «Andersen's Tales, By the Almshouse Window, part 2: a pastor's dream of sinners, then an old maid watches children play while an angel carries a dead child to heaven» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reason	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 woman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obl:agent
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 appearance	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 appearance	nmod:poss
12	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 pastor	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pastor	det
15	pastor	pastor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle		the State principal reason not said here	the pastor			for woman's appearance	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent for appearance=Asset to pastor=Recipient

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

Despair alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Despair	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Her hard words and despair of mankind drove her to him.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 words	nmod:poss
2	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drove	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 despair	cc
5	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 words	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 mankind	case
7	mankind	mankind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 despair	nmod
8	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drove	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drove	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 drove	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	drive	past	Her hard words and despair of mankind	her = she	him = he	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme to he=Trajectory
2	word		Her = she			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
3	despair		mankind			nom despair «state intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

Her cruel words and hopeless view of the world moved her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 words	nmod:poss
2	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 moved	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 view	cc
5	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 view	amod
6	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 words	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 view	nmod
10	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 moved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	move	past	Her cruel words and hopeless view of the world	her = she	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme she=Result
2	word		Her = she		nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
3	view			the world	nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Her hard words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 words	nmod:poss
2	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	word		Her = she						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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