Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails f…

Which creatures did the snails consider vulgar and conceited?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: creatures, snails · What happens: do, consider

This is exam question 4 of lesson 846 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails find a wife for their adopted son» 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 creatures	det
2	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snails	det
5	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consider	nsubj
6	consider	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	vulgar	vulgar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 consider	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 conceited	cc
9	conceited	conceited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 vulgar	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which creatures						tree rules
2	consider	present	the snails					vulgar property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: 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

The black snails without houses, who were thought to be lowly and rude by everyone

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 snails	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 snails	amod
3	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 houses	case
5	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 snails	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 thought	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	aux:pass
9	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 snails	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	12 lowly	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 lowly	cop
12	lowly	lowly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thought	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rude	cc
14	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lowly	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 everyone	case
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 thought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · passive	everyone	the black snails without houses		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	everyone not said here		lowly property	tree rules
3	be		everyone not said here			tree rules

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

The black snails without houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 snails	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 snails	amod
3	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 houses	case
5	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 snails	nmod

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

Option 3

The gnats and glow-worms who flew about the garden in the rain every evening

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gnats	det
2	gnats	gnat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 worms	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 worms	cc
4	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worms	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 glow	punct
6	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 flew	nsubj
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 worms	acl:relcl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 garden	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 garden	det
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 rain	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rain	det
14	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obl
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 evening	det
16	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	glow worms			the rain	evening	about the garden	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent about garden=Location

Option 4

The white snails with houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 snails	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 snails	amod
3	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 houses	case
5	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 snails	nmod

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

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