Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

By what means did Helga convey water to the dead priest and the horse?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Helga · What happens: mean, convey · To what, where: water, dead priest

This is exam question 4 of lesson 893 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 104: robbers kill the priest and horse, and Helga, now a frog, buries him» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 convey	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 convey	aux
5	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 convey	nsubj
6	convey	convey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 convey	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 priest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 priest	det
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 priest	amod
11	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 convey	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 horse	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 priest	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 convey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	convey	past · do-support	Helga	water	the dead priest and the horse				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent water=Topic to priest=Recipient

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

with her hollow webbed palm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	5 palm	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 palm	nmod:poss
3	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 palm	amod
4	webbed	web	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 palm	amod
5	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	web	participle							tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

in her hand, which was webbed and hollow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 hand	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hand	nmod:poss
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 webbed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hand	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 webbed	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 webbed	aux:pass
7	webbed	web	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hollow	cc
9	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 webbed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	web	past · passive				her hand			tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

by dipping her long webbed hand into the spring water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 dipping	mark
2	dipping	dip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hand	amod
5	webbed	web	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 hand	amod
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dipping	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
9	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 water	compound
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dipping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dip	gerund		her long webbed hand		the spring water			vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme into water=Destination
2	web	participle							tree rules

Option 4

in her cupped hands from the spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	4 hands	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
3	cupped	cup	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hands	amod
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 spring	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spring	det
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hands	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cup	participle							vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

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