Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 1…

What object does Little Claus carry into the next town, and for what purpose does he carry it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, Little, purpose · What happens: do, carry · To what, where: next town, object

This is exam question 2 of lesson 868 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 1: Big Claus kills Little Claus's only horse, and Little Claus climbs onto a shed roof to watch a feast» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 carry	nsubj
5	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Little	flat
6	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	ccomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 town	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 town	amod
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 carry	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 carry	cc
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 what	case
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 carry	obj
15	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 what	nsubj
16	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 carry	aux
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 carry	nsubj
18	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 does	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 carry	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	present	what object			tree rules
2	carry	present	Little		the next town	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	carry	present · do-support	purpose	object		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme what=Beneficiary it=Value

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 right answer

The horse's hide, carried in order to be sold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 horse	case
4	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 carried	punct
6	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hide	acl
7	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	11 sold	mark
8	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 in	fixed
9	to	to	PART	_	11 sold	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 sold	aux:pass
11	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 carried	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	participle		the horse's hide not said here					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sell	to-infinitive · passive							vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»

Option 2

The farmer's old hammer used to strike a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hammer	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 farmer	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hammer	amod
5	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hammer	acl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 strike	mark
8	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 used	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strike	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle		the farmer's old hammer not said here					vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	strike	to-infinitive		a horse					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent horse=Instrument

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A bundle of wood for the fire at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bundle	det
2	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wood	case
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bundle	nmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 fire	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bundle	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 home	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fire	nmod

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

Option 4

The horse's hide, which he carries across the frozen river in order to sell it to the tanner in town

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 horse	case
4	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 carries	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 carries	nsubj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 carries	nsubj
8	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hide	acl:relcl
9	across	across	ADP	_	12 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
11	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 river	amod
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carries	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 order	case
14	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carries	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 sell	mark
16	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 carries	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sell	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 tanner	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tanner	det
20	tanner	tanner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sell	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 town	case
22	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tanner	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	present	the horse's hide			the frozen river	in order	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in order=Location
2	freeze	participle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	sell	to-infinitive	the horse's hide not said here	order	the tanner in town			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to tanner=Recipient

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