Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard: Jack wins the Pr…

To what extent did the suitors' inability to speak arise from the heat of the hall, as opposed to the presence of the clerks?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: extent, hall · What happens: do, speak, arise, oppose, heat · To what, where: inability, heat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 820 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard: Jack wins the Princess with clay, a crow and a wooden shoe» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 suitors	det
6	suitors	suitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 inability	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 suitors	case
8	inability	inability	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 speak	mark
10	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 inability	acl
11	arise	arise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 speak	xcomp
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 heat	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 heat	det
14	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 arise	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 hall	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hall	det
17	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heat	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 presence	punct
19	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	23 presence	case
20	opposed	oppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 as	fixed
21	to	to	ADP	_	19 as	fixed
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 presence	det
23	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 arise	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 clerks	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 clerks	det
26	clerks	clerk	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 presence	nmod
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	extent	the suitors's inability			tree rules
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	extent not said here	the suitors's inability not said here			tree rules
3	arise	infinitive	extent not said here		the heat of the hall	as the presence of the clerks	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	oppose	participle					vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	heat		the hall				nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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

Entirely from the sweltering heat of the hall and the crowd pressing in around the suitors

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Entirely	entirely	ADV	_	5 heat	advmod
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 heat	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 heat	det
4	sweltering	swelter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 heat	amod
5	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 hall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hall	det
8	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heat	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 crowd	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 crowd	det
11	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heat	conj
12	pressing	press	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 crowd	acl
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 pressing	advmod
14	around	around	ADP	_	16 suitors	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 suitors	det
16	suitors	suitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pressing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	swelter	gerund			vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	press in	gerund	the crowd not said here	the suitors	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent around suitor=Trajectory
3	heat		the hall		nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

Partly from the heat, partly the stove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Partly	partly	ADV	_	4 heat	advmod
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 heat	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heat	det
4	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stove	punct
6	partly	partly	ADV	_	8 stove	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stove	det
8	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heat	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Principally from the clerks, rather than the heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Principally	principally	ADV	_	4 clerks	advmod
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 clerks	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clerks	det
4	clerks	clerk	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 heat	punct
6	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	9 heat	cc
7	than	than	ADP	_	6 rather	fixed
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heat	det
9	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clerks	conj

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

Option 4

Largely because of the stove and its fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Largely	largely	ADV	_	5 stove	advmod
2	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	5 stove	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	2 because	fixed
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stove	det
5	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fire	cc
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fire	nmod:poss
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stove	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fire		its = it						nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

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