Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99…

What was the principal consequence of the wind's direction for the Viking?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: principal consequence

This is exam question 4 of lesson 888 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99: the stork carries a baby to the Viking's wife, but the child turns into a frog at night» 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 consequence	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 consequence	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 consequence	amod
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 direction	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wind	det
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 direction	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 wind	case
10	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 Viking	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Viking	det
13	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 direction	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal consequence				of the wind's direction for the Viking	tree rules

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

his ship was sunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ship	nmod:poss
2	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sunk	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sunk	aux:pass
4	sunk	sink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past · passive		his ship					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 2

his horse was lamed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 horse	nmod:poss
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lamed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lamed	aux:pass
4	lamed	lame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lame	past · passive		his horse					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his return was delayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 return	nmod:poss
2	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delayed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delayed	cop
4	delayed	delayed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his return					delayed property	tree rules
2	return		his = he						nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

his return home was delayed by many days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 home	nmod:poss
2	return	return	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 home	amod
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 delayed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delayed	aux:pass
5	delayed	delay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 days	amod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 delayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	delay	past · passive		his return home			day		vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: subject=Source

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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