Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the…

What did the withered leaf serve to demonstrate to the sister?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, wither, demonstrate · To what, where: withered leaf serve

This is exam question 3 of lesson 821 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the lover is murdered and the sister keeps his head» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 serve	det
4	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 serve	amod
5	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 serve	compound
6	serve	serve	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 demonstrate	mark
8	demonstrate	demonstrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 serve	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 sister	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sister	det
11	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 demonstrate	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the withered leaf serve		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serve=Eventuality
2	wither	participle			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	demonstrate	to-infinitive	the withered leaf serve not said here	to the sister	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to sister=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 · ← Mova's choice

that her brother was guilty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 guilty	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guilty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 guilty	cop
5	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	her brother					guilty property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

that her dream was true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 true	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dream	nmod:poss
3	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 true	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	her dream					true property	tree rules
2	dream		her = she						nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

that the elf was real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 real	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 elf	det
3	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 real	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 real	cop
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the elf					real property	tree rules

Option 4

she was right

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	3 right	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					right property	tree rules

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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