Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Ida's Flowers, part 84: the…

Indicate the reason the student gives for the flowers hanging their heads in the morning.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, student, flowers · What happens: indicate, give, hang · To what, where: reason, heads

This is exam question 3 of lesson 873 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Ida's Flowers, part 84: the golden wedding under the elder-tree, then Ida's withered flowers and the student's tale of the flower ball» 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	Indicate	indicate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Indicate	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 student	det
5	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	nsubj
6	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reason	acl:relcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 flowers	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flowers	det
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gives	obl
10	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 flowers	acl
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 heads	nmod:poss
12	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hanging	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 morning	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 morning	det
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hanging	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Indicate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	indicate	imperative	you not said here	the reason			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot reason=Topic
2	give	present	the student	the reason not said here		for the flowers	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent reason=Theme for flower=Asset
3	hang	gerund	the flowers not said here	flowers's heads	morning		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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

They were stung by a nettle and then tried to dance a ball in the king's castle all night

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stung	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stung	aux:pass
3	stung	sting	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 nettle	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 nettle	det
6	nettle	nettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stung	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tried	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 tried	advmod
9	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stung	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 dance	mark
11	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tried	xcomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ball	det
13	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dance	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 castle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 castle	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 king	case
18	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dance	obl
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stung	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sting	past · passive	a nettle	They		night	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	try	past	a nettle not said here			then	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	dance not said to happen	to-infinitive	a nettle not said here	a ball	the king's castle		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ball=Theme

Option 2

They attended a ball the previous night and were dancing so long that the petals wilted

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 attended	nsubj
2	attended	attend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ball	det
4	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attended	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
6	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attended	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dancing	cc
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dancing	aux
10	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 attended	conj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 long	advmod
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 dancing	advmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 wilted	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 petals	det
15	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wilted	nsubj
16	wilted	wilt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 dancing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	attend	past	They	a ball	night		vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ball=Goal
2	dance	past · progressive	They not said here			long property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wilt	participle	the petals				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

They spent the night in the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	They			the garden	night		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They attended a ball the previous night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 attended	nsubj
2	attended	attend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ball	det
4	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attended	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
6	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attended	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attend	past	They	a ball			night		vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ball=Goal

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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