Exam question 2 · Danish Fairy Tales, The Old Street Lamp, part 135: the lam…

Which of the following accurately identifies the reason the schoolmistress refused to lend herbs?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: schoolmistress · What happens: follow, identify, refuse, not lend · To what, where: reason, herbs

This is exam question 2 of lesson 924 «Danish Fairy Tales, The Old Street Lamp, part 135: the lamp's last night on his post and the three rivals on the bridge» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 identifies	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 identifies	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 identifies	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 identifies	nsubj
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 identifies	advmod
6	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reason	det
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 schoolmistress	det
10	schoolmistress	schoolmistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 refused	nsubj
11	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reason	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 lend	mark
13	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 refused	xcomp
14	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lend	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 identifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present		the reason	accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
3	refuse	past	the schoolmistress	the reason not said here		tree rules
4	not lend	to-infinitive	the schoolmistress not said here	herbs		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Theme

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

Her herb bed had died in frost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bed	nmod:poss
2	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bed	compound
3	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 died	aux
5	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 frost	case
7	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · perfect	Her herb bed					in frost	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in frost=Attribute

Option 2

Her garden had no herbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 garden	nmod:poss
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 herbs	det
5	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Her garden	no herbs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Her garden produced no herbs to spare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 garden	nmod:poss
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 produced	nsubj
3	produced	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 herbs	det
5	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 produced	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 spare	mark
7	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 produced	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	produce	past	Her garden	no herbs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Result
2	spare	to-infinitive	Her garden not said here						vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Her plot grew no herbs to share

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 plot	nmod:poss
2	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 herbs	det
5	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grew	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 share	mark
7	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grew	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	grow	past	Her plot	no herbs	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herb=Theme
2	share	to-infinitive	Her plot not said here		tree rules
3	plot		Her = she		nom plot «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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