Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 61: Christ…

Which term describes the relationship Ib and Christina were said to hold in childhood?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: term · What happens: describe, say, hold · To what, where: relationship, childhood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 of lesson 850 «Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 61: Christina goes into service, and Ib cannot write to her» 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 term	det
2	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 describes	nsubj
3	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 relationship	det
5	relationship	relationship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj:pass
6	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 relationship	appos
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Christina	cc
8	Christina	Christina	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ib	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	aux:pass
10	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 describes	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hold	mark
12	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 childhood	case
14	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hold	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	describe	present	which term			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · passive		the relationship		tree rules
3	hold	to-infinitive			childhood	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in childhood=Location

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

Promised in childhood to each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 childhood	case
3	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Promised	obl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 each	case
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	1 Promised	obl
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	participle			each	childhood			vn promise-37.13 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient

Option 2

Engaged to be married

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	4 married	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 married	aux:pass
4	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Engaged	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	engage	participle							vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	marry	to-infinitive · passive							vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Betrothed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Betrothed	betrothed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Sweethearts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweethearts	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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