Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp: the lamp dreams it…

What did the lamp conclude regarding joy that is not shared with others?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lamp · What happens: do, conclude, regard, not share · To what, where: joy

This is exam question 3 of lesson 925 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp: the lamp dreams it will be melted down» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lamp	det
4	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conclude	nsubj
5	conclude	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 joy	case
7	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conclude	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 shared	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 shared	aux:pass
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 shared	advmod
11	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 joy	acl:relcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 others	case
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shared	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				tree rules
2	conclude	present	the lamp		regard joy	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	regard	gerund				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not share	present · passive		joy	with others	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

That it is enjoyed fully only by the lamp in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 enjoyed	nsubj:pass
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 enjoyed	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 enjoyed	aux:pass
4	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	fully	fully	ADV	_	4 enjoyed	advmod
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 lamp	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 lamp	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lamp	det
9	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enjoyed	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 dark	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dark	det
12	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lamp	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enjoy	present · passive	the lamp in the dark	That				fully property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That it is only half enjoyed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 enjoyed	nsubj:pass
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 enjoyed	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 enjoyed	aux:pass
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 half	advmod
5	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 enjoyed	advmod
6	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enjoy	present · passive		That				half property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 3

That it is not enjoyed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 enjoyed	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 enjoyed	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 enjoyed	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 enjoyed	advmod
5	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not enjoy	present · passive		That					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

That it is only half enjoyed unless it is shared with a friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 half	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 half	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 half	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 half	advmod
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 enjoyed	nsubj
6	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	10 shared	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shared	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 shared	aux:pass
10	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 enjoyed	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 friend	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 friend	det
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shared	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	That	half	tree rules
2	enjoy	past	half		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	share a condition, not said to happen	present · passive	a friend	half	tree rules

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