Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf: pro…

Which action of the protagonist directly caused her eventual punishment?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: action, protagonist · What happens: cause, act, punish · To what, where: eventual punishment

This is exam question 1 of lesson 832 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf: proud Inge tramples bread, sinks into the marsh and is punished» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 action	det
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caused	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 protagonist	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 protagonist	det
5	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 action	nmod
6	directly	directly	ADV	_	7 caused	advmod
7	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 punishment	nmod:poss
9	eventual	eventual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 punishment	amod
10	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caused	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 caused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	past	which action of the protagonist	action's eventual punishment	directly property	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition punishment=Patient
2	act		the protagonist			nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent
3	punish		action			nom punishment «act 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

Her refusal to share the bread with the poor

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 refusal	nmod:poss
2	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 share	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 share	mark
4	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bread	det
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 share	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 poor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 poor	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 share	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	to-infinitive	Her refusal	the bread				with the poor	tree rules
2	refuse		Her = she						nom refusal «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Her stealing of the wheaten loaf from the baker's shop at night

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 stealing	nmod:poss
2	stealing	stealing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 loaf	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 loaf	det
5	wheaten	wheaten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 loaf	amod
6	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stealing	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 shop	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 baker	det
9	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shop	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 baker	case
11	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loaf	nmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stealing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal		Her = she	the wheaten loaf from the baker's shop			at night		nom stealing «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient at=obl

Option 3

Her treading on the loaf

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 treading	nmod:poss
2	treading	treading	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 loaf	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 loaf	det
5	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 treading	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Her treading upon the wheaten loaf to keep her shoes clean

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 treading	nmod:poss
2	treading	treading	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	nsubj
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 loaf	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 loaf	det
5	wheaten	wheaten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 loaf	amod
6	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 treading	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 keep	mark
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shoes	nmod:poss
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 keep	obj
11	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive	Her treading upon the wheaten loaf	treading's shoes				clean property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme

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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