Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care t…

Identify the intelligence conveyed to the laundress by Martha, which caused her to experience faintness and distress?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Martha · What happens: identify, convey, cause, experience · To what, where: intelligence, laundress, Martha, faintness

This is exam question 3 of lesson 843 «Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care takes the goloshes, the mayor scolds a washer-woman's boy, and bad news reaches the laundress» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 intelligence	det
3	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 intelligence	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 laundress	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 laundress	det
7	laundress	laundress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 conveyed	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 Martha	case
9	Martha	Martha	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 conveyed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 caused	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 caused	nsubj
12	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Martha	acl:relcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 caused	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 experience	mark
15	experience	experience	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 caused	xcomp
16	faintness	faintness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 experience	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 distress	cc
18	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 faintness	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the intelligence			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent intelligence=Theme
2	convey	participle		the intelligence not said here	the laundress	by Martha	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to laundress=Recipient
3	cause	past	Martha		Martha		tree rules
4	experience	to-infinitive	Martha not said here	faintness and distress			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer faintness=Stimulus

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 her boy had been sent to prison for stealing from the mayor's house

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 sent	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 boy	nmod:poss
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sent	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 sent	aux:pass
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 prison	case
8	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 stealing	mark
10	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sent	advcl
11	from	from	ADP	_	15 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mayor	det
13	mayor	Mayor	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 house	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 mayor	case
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stealing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · perfect · passive		her boy		prison			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to prison=Destination
2	steal	gerund				the mayor's house			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the death of the mayor's younger brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 death	det
2	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 brother	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mayor	det
5	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brother	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 mayor	case
7	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 brother	amod
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 death	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die		the mayor's younger brother						nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

the news that the mayor's younger brother had died suddenly in Copenhagen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 news	det
2	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 died	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mayor	det
5	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brother	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 mayor	case
7	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 brother	amod
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 died	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 died	aux
10	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 news	acl
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	10 died	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Copenhagen	case
13	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · perfect	the mayor's younger brother	the news not said here		Copenhagen		suddenly property	tree rules

Option 4

news that the mayor's brother had died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 died	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mayor	det
4	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brother	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 mayor	case
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 died	aux
8	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 news	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · perfect	the mayor's brother						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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