Exam question 3 · Stories of Many Lands, The Bond of Friendship: three frien…

What response does Aphtanides make to the narrator's declaration, and why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: response, narrator · What happens: make, declare

This is exam question 3 of lesson 831 «Stories of Many Lands, The Bond of Friendship: three friends swear to be brothers and sister for life, and a secret love is confessed» 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 make	obj
2	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
4	Aphtanides	aphtanide	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 declaration	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 narrator	det
8	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 declaration	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 narrator	case
10	declaration	declaration	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 why	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 why	cc
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 make	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · do-support	response					to the narrator's declaration	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset what=Product
2	declare		the narrator						nom declaration «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

He blames the narrator and refuses the oath

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 blames	nsubj
2	blames	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrator	det
4	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blames	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 refuses	cc
6	refuses	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 blames	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oath	det
8	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 refuses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	present	He	the narrator					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent narrator=Theme
2	refuse	present	He not said here	the oath					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme

Option 2

He relinquishes his claim out of loyalty and grief, and then sails away before dawn

The tree, 15 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 relinquishes	nsubj
2	relinquishes	relinquish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 claim	nmod:poss
4	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 relinquishes	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 loyalty	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 loyalty	case
7	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 claim	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grief	cc
9	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loyalty	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sails	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sails	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 sails	advmod
13	sails	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 relinquishes	conj
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 sails	advmod
15	before	before	ADP	_	16 dawn	case
16	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sails	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	relinquish	present	He	his claim	loyalty and grief			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent claim=Theme
2	sail away	present	He not said here			then; dawn	away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	claim		his = he		loyalty and grief			nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent out=place

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He relinquishes his claim out of loyalty and grief

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 relinquishes	nsubj
2	relinquishes	relinquish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 claim	nmod:poss
4	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 relinquishes	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 loyalty	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 loyalty	case
7	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 relinquishes	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grief	cc
9	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loyalty	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	relinquish	present	He	his claim		loyalty and grief			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent claim=Theme
2	claim		his = he						nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

He relinquishes his claim out of loyalty and grief, giving all his money to the mother

The tree, 16 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 relinquishes	nsubj
2	relinquishes	relinquish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 claim	nmod:poss
4	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 relinquishes	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 loyalty	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 loyalty	case
7	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 claim	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grief	cc
9	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loyalty	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 giving	punct
11	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 relinquishes	advcl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 money	det:predet
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 money	nmod:poss
14	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 giving	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 mother	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mother	det
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 giving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	relinquish	present	He	his claim		loyalty and grief	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent claim=Theme
2	give	gerund	He not said here	his money	the mother		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to mother=Recipient
3	claim		his = he			loyalty and grief	nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent out=place

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