Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28: the Dryad follows st…

What was the principal cause of the Dryad's anxiety within the sanctuary?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: principal cause

This is exam question 2 of lesson 817 «Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28: the Dryad follows strangers down into the Paris sewers» 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	PRON	PronType=Int	5 cause	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cause	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cause	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cause	amod
5	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 anxiety	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Dryad	det
8	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 anxiety	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Dryad	case
10	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cause	nmod
11	within	within	ADP	_	13 sanctuary	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sanctuary	det
13	sanctuary	sanctuary	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 anxiety	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal cause				of the Dryad's anxiety within the sanctuary	tree rules

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

The cold stones and the echo inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stones	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stones	amod
3	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 echo	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 echo	det
6	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stones	conj
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 stones	advmod

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

Option 2

Her feeling of being unwelcome there

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	2 feeling	nmod:poss
2	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 unwelcome	mark
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 unwelcome	aux:pass
5	unwelcome	unwelcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 feeling	acl
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 unwelcome	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unwelcome	gerund · passive		Her feeling not said here		there			tree rules

Option 3

Her fear of the dark

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	2 fear	nmod:poss
2	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 dark	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dark	det
5	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fear	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear		Her = she	the dark					nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Her sense of having no lawful presence there

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	2 sense	nmod:poss
2	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 having	mark
4	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 sense	acl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 presence	det
6	lawful	lawful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 presence	amod
7	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 having	obj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 having	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	Her sense not said here	no lawful presence		there			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Patient
2	sense		Her = she						nom sense «cognition 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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