Exam question 2 · Gutenberg 27200, The Jewish Maiden: a Jewish servant keeps…

What was the principal sentiment that moved the pasha to tears?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: principal sentiment · What happens: be, move · To what, where: principal sentiment, pasha, tears

This is exam question 2 of lesson 865 «Gutenberg 27200, The Jewish Maiden: a Jewish servant keeps her vow, hears a knight's legend and is buried outside the churchyard wall» 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	5 sentiment	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sentiment	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sentiment	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sentiment	amod
5	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 moved	nsubj
7	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sentiment	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pasha	det
9	pasha	pasha	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moved	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 tears	case
11	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 moved	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sentiment	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal sentiment					tree rules
2	move	past	the principal sentiment	the pasha		tears			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent pasha=Theme to tear=Trajectory

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

Joy at the knight's return home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Joy	Joy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	6 return	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knight	det
4	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 return	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 knight	case
6	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Joy	nmod
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 return	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return		the knight						nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Deep astonishment at the knight's mercy and his willingness to forgive his captor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 astonishment	amod
2	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 mercy	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 knight	det
5	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mercy	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 knight	case
7	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 astonishment	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 willingness	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 willingness	nmod:poss
10	willingness	willingness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mercy	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 forgive	mark
12	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 willingness	acl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 captor	nmod:poss
14	captor	captor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 forgive	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forgive	to-infinitive		his captor					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captor=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Astonishment at the knight's mercy and forgiveness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	6 mercy	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knight	det
4	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mercy	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 knight	case
6	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Astonishment	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 forgiveness	cc
8	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mercy	conj

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

Option 4

Sorrow that the war had ended and his soldiers had all gone home to their families in the north

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ended	nsubj:pass
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 ended	nsubj:pass
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 war	det
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ended	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ended	aux
6	ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 soldiers	nmod:poss
9	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ended	conj
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 gone	advmod
12	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 home	amod
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 families	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 families	nmod:poss
16	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 north	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 north	det
19	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	past · perfect · passive		Sorrow					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
2	have	past	war's soldiers	gone home		the north		to soldiers's families	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient

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