Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 4: the boat sin…

How did the laborer's wife respond to the news of the drowned boy?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, drown · To what, where: wife respond

This is exam question 3 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 laborer	det
4	laborer	laborer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 respond	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 laborer	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 respond	compound
7	respond	respond	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 news	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 news	det
10	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 boy	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
13	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 boy	amod
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 news	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the laborer's wife respond				to the news of the drowned boy	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respond=Eventuality
2	drown	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

She discussed it with cool practicality

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 discussed	nsubj
2	discussed	discuss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 discussed	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 practicality	case
5	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 practicality	amod
6	practicality	practicality	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 discussed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discuss speech: other	past	She	it				with cool practicality	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent it=Topic with practicality=Co-Agent

Option 2

She discussed it with cool practicality and then went back to her chores

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 discussed	nsubj
2	discussed	discuss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 discussed	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 practicality	case
5	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 practicality	amod
6	practicality	practicality	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 discussed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 went	advmod
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 discussed	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 chores	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 chores	nmod:poss
13	chores	chore	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discuss speech: other	past	She	it				with cool practicality	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent it=Topic with practicality=Co-Agent
2	go back	past	She not said here				then	to her chores result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to chore=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She prayed for the boy's soul

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 prayed	nsubj
2	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	7 soul	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 soul	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 boy	case
7	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	past	She					for the boy's soul	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for soul=Theme

Option 4

She argued about the cost of the funeral

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 argued	nsubj
2	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 cost	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cost	det
5	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 argued	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 funeral	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 funeral	det
8	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cost	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	She					about the cost of the funeral	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about cost=Topic
2	cost			the funeral					nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient

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