Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death s…

By what criterion are the riders divided before the horse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: criterion, riders · What happens: be, divide

This is exam question 2 of lesson 928 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death shows Hjalmar how he sorts the riders by their mark-books» 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=Int	7 divided	obj
3	criterion	criterion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 riders	det
6	riders	rider	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 divided	nsubj
7	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 horse	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 divided	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 divided	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	criterion						tree rules
2	divide	past	the riders				before the horse		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

by the grades recorded in their mark-books and their conduct books, all together

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 grades	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grades	det
3	grades	grade	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grades	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 books	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 books	nmod:poss
7	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 books	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 mark	punct
9	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 recorded	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 books	cc
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 books	nmod:poss
12	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 books	compound
13	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 books	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grades	punct
15	all	all	ADV	_	16 together	advmod
16	together	together	ADV	_	3 grades	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	record	participle		the grades not said here		grades's mark books and books's conduct books			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in book=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

by the grades recorded in their mark-books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 grades	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grades	det
3	grades	grade	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grades	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 books	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 books	nmod:poss
7	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 books	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 mark	punct
9	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 recorded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	record	participle		the grades not said here		grades's mark books			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in book=Destination

Option 3

by the marks given in the school register

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 marks	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 marks	det
3	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 marks	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 register	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 register	det
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 register	compound
8	register	register	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle		the marks not said here		the school register			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

by the grades recorded in their mark-books during the whole term at school

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 grades	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grades	det
3	grades	grade	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grades	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 books	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 books	nmod:poss
7	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 books	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 mark	punct
9	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 recorded	obl
10	during	during	ADP	_	13 term	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 term	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 term	amod
13	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recorded	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 school	case
15	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 term	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	record	participle		the grades not said here		grades's mark books	during the whole term at school		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in book=Destination

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