Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 1: a…

What reason does the proud girl give for the superiority of well-born children?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: reason, proud girl · What happens: do, give, bear

This is exam question 4 of lesson 810 «Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 1: a mother's ghostly farewell ends, and a proud girl sneers at "sen" names at a party» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 reason	det
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
5	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girl	amod
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 superiority	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 superiority	det
10	superiority	superiority	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 children	case
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 born	advmod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 well	punct
14	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 children	amod
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 superiority	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	present	what reason		tree rules
2	give	present	the proud girl	for the superiority of born children	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for superiority=Asset
3	bear	participle		well property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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

Birth is all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	2 is	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	Birth					all property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Breeding matters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Breeding	breeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 matters	nsubj
2	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	Breeding						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Their parents have always been the richest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 been	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 been	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 been	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 richest	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 richest	det
7	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	participle						rich property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No one who is not well-born can rise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rise	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 born	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 born	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 born	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 born	advmod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 well	punct
8	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 one	acl:relcl
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 rise	aux
10	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present · passive		no one				bear, well property	tree rules
2	rise	can	no one						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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