Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven f…

In what condition does the narrative describe the marriage lamps upon Helga's return?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrative, Helga · What happens: describe, return · To what, where: marriage lamps, condition

This is exam question 3 of lesson 897 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven for three minutes and returns to find a night gone» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 condition	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 condition	det
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 describe	obl
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 describe	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 narrative	det
6	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 describe	nsubj
7	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lamps	det
9	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lamps	compound
10	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 describe	obj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 return	case
12	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 return	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Helga	case
14	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 describe	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · do-support	the narrative	the marriage lamps		what condition		upon Helga's return	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme
2	return		Helga						nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 had been lit

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	4 lit	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lit	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 lit	aux:pass
4	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	past · perfect · passive		they					tree rules

Option 2

they had been extinguished by the wind

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	4 extinguished	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 extinguished	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 extinguished	aux:pass
4	extinguished	extinguish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 wind	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 extinguished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	extinguish	past · perfect · passive	the wind	they					vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they had been extinguished

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	4 extinguished	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 extinguished	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 extinguished	aux:pass
4	extinguished	extinguish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	extinguish	past · perfect · passive		they					vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 4

they were still burning

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	4 burning	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burning	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 burning	advmod
4	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · progressive	they				still		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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