Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Beetle: the beetle marries, leaves h…

Why did the beetle regard the world as unjust?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: beetle · What happens: regard · To what, where: world

This is exam question 3 of lesson 799 «Andersen's Tales, The Beetle: the beetle marries, leaves his wife, and is rescued from 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 regard	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 regard	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beetle	det
4	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 regard	nsubj
5	regard	regard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 regard	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 unjust	case
9	unjust	unjust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 regard	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 regard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	regard	past · do-support	the beetle	the world				as unjust	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent world=Theme as unjust=Value

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

he thought his wife had hidden the shoes

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hidden	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hidden	aux
6	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thought	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shoes	det
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hidden	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hide	past · perfect · passive		his wife					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he believed he had been denied golden shoes

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 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 denied	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 denied	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 denied	aux:pass
6	denied	deny	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 believed	ccomp
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shoes	amod
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 denied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	he						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	deny	past · perfect · passive		he					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme shoe=Eventuality

Option 3

he thought he was never given shoes

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 given	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 given	aux:pass
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 given	advmod
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 shoes	amod
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he	given shoes					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot shoe=Theme
2	not give	past · passive		he					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

he believed he had been denied golden shoes that the emperor promised to every beetle in the land

The tree, 18 words

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 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 denied	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 denied	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 denied	aux:pass
6	denied	deny	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 believed	ccomp
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shoes	amod
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 denied	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 promised	obl:unmarked
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 emperor	det
11	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 promised	nsubj
12	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shoes	acl:relcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 beetle	case
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 beetle	det
15	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 promised	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 land	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 land	det
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 promised	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	believe	past	he				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	deny	past · perfect · passive		he			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme shoe=Eventuality
3	promise speech: promise	past	the emperor	golden shoes	every beetle	the land	vn promise-37.13 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to beetle=Recipient

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