Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 4: the boat sin…

Which emotion did Anne Lisbeth experience on departing the castle?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: emotion · What happens: do, depart · To what, where: Lisbeth experience, castle

This is exam question 2 of lesson 793 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 4: the boat sinks, and Anne Lisbeth walks home alone by the sea» 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 emotion	det
2	emotion	emotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Lisbeth	compound
5	Lisbeth	Lisbeth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 experience	compound
6	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	on	on	SCONJ	_	8 departing	mark
8	departing	depart	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 did	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 castle	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 departing	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which emotion	Lisbeth experience					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent experience=Eventuality
2	depart	gerund	which emotion not said here	the castle					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme castle=Initial_Location

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

a mournful and melancholy sadness, mixed with a strange joy at leaving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sadness	det
2	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sadness	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sadness	cc
4	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sadness	compound
5	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mixed	punct
7	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sadness	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 joy	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 joy	det
10	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 joy	amod
11	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mixed	obl
12	at	at	SCONJ	_	13 leaving	mark
13	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 mixed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle		a mournful melancholy sadness not said here				with a strange joy	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with joy=Co-Patient
2	leave	gerund							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a mournful and melancholy sadness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sadness	det
2	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sadness	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 melancholy	cc
4	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mournful	conj
5	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a cheerful and hopeful pride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pride	det
2	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pride	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hopeful	cc
4	hopeful	hopeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cheerful	conj
5	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a mournful and melancholy sadness that never left her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sadness	det
2	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sadness	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sadness	cc
4	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sadness	compound
5	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 left	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 left	advmod
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sadness	acl:relcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not leave	past	a mournful melancholy sadness	her = she					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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