Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 51: a volu…

What did the clerk mistakenly conclude regarding the wet pair of goloshes?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, conclude, regard · To what, where: clerk

This is exam question 2 of lesson 840 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 51: a volunteer shrinks to wander through strange hearts, then a clerk puts on the goloshes and feels like a poet» 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	4 clerk	det
4	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	mistakenly	mistakenly	ADV	_	6 conclude	advmod
6	conclude	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
7	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 pair	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pair	det
9	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pair	amod
10	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conclude	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 goloshes	case
12	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pair	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the clerk		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clerk=Eventuality
2	conclude	present		regard the wet pair of goloshes; mistakenly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	regard	gerund			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

That they were his own, although they were wet and very old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 own	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 own	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 own	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 own	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wet	punct
7	although	although	SCONJ	_	10 wet	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wet	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wet	cop
10	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 own	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 old	cc
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 old	advmod
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 own	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	That	own property	tree rules
2	is	past	they	wet property	tree rules
3	be		That not said here		tree rules

Option 2

That they belonged to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 belonged	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 belonged	nsubj
3	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 belonged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	past	That		him = he				vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

That they were his own pair that he had left by the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 pair	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pair	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pair	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pair	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pair	amod
6	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 left	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 left	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 left	aux
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 pair	advcl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 door	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	his own pair					tree rules
2	leave	past · perfect	he					by the door	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

That they were his own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 own	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 own	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 own	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 own	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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