Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldie…

What was the principal response of the young man upon examining the discovered tin figure?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young man · What happens: be, examine, discover · To what, where: principal response, discovered tin figure

This is exam question 3 of lesson 922 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldier is found again in a new garden» 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 response	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 response	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 response	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 response	amod
5	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 man	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 response	nmod
10	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	11 examining	mark
11	examining	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 man	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 figure	det
13	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 figure	amod
14	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 figure	compound
15	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 examining	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 response	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal response	of the young man	tree rules
2	examine	gerund	the young man not said here	the discovered tin figure		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Theme
3	discover	participle				vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=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

he was certain it was an entirely different toy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 certain	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 certain	cop
3	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 toy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 toy	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 toy	det
7	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	8 different	advmod
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 toy	amod
9	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 certain	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					certain property	tree rules
2	is a	past	it	a different toy					tree rules

Option 2

he bent down, studied it carefully and declared that a new soldier must have been made

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bent	nsubj
2	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 bent	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 studied	punct
5	studied	study	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bent	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 studied	obj
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	5 studied	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 declared	cc
9	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bent	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 made	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 soldier	det
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 soldier	amod
13	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	nsubj:pass
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 made	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 made	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 made	aux:pass
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 declared	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bend down	past	he		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	study	past	he not said here	it	carefully property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	declare speech: other	past	he not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	make	must · perfect · passive		a new soldier		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he examined it closely for a long while and then gave a long speech about tin

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 examined	nsubj
2	examined	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 examined	obj
4	closely	closely	ADV	_	2 examined	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 while	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 while	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 while	amod
8	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 examined	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gave	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 gave	advmod
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 examined	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 speech	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 speech	amod
14	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 tin	case
16	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 speech	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	examine	past	he	it			while	closely property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	give	past	he not said here	a long speech			then	about tin	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he expressed doubt that it was the identical soldier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 expressed	nsubj
2	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expressed	obj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 soldier	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 soldier	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 soldier	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 soldier	det
8	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 soldier	amod
9	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expressed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	express	past	he	doubt					vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Theme
2	is a	past	doubt	the identical soldier					tree rules

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