Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and…

Which of the following is the reason the blood-beech requires substantial sunshine in the garden?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: blood beech · What happens: follow, be, require · To what, where: substantial sunshine, garden

This is exam question 4 of lesson 948 «Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and Soren rob the birds' nests» 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	7 reason	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	7 reason	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reason	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 reason	case
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 reason	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reason	det
7	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beech	det
9	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beech	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 blood	punct
11	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 requires	nsubj
12	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 reason	acl
13	substantial	substantial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sunshine	amod
14	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 requires	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 garden	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 garden	det
17	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 requires	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present				of the reason	tree rules
3	require	present	the blood beech	substantial sunshine	the garden		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sunshine=Precondition

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

To prevent it from becoming bright green like the other trees in the garden during summer

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 prevent	mark
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 prevent	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 becoming	mark
5	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 prevent	advcl
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 green	amod
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 becoming	xcomp
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 trees	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 trees	amod
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 becoming	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 garden	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 garden	det
14	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 becoming	obl
15	during	during	ADP	_	16 summer	case
16	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 becoming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent	to-infinitive		it					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme
2	become	gerund					summer	in the garden result; like the other trees; green property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in garden=Result

Option 2

To stop it from turning pale like the birches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stop	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 turning	mark
5	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stop	advcl
6	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turning	xcomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 birches	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 birches	det
9	birches	birch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		it					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality
2	turn	gerund						like the birches; pale property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

To prevent it from becoming bright green like the other trees, which the lady had planted herself

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 prevent	mark
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 prevent	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 becoming	mark
5	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 prevent	advcl
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 green	amod
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 becoming	xcomp
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 trees	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 trees	amod
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 becoming	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 planted	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 planted	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lady	det
15	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 planted	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 planted	aux
17	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 trees	acl:relcl
18	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 planted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prevent	to-infinitive	it		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme
2	become	gerund		like the other trees; green property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	plant	past · perfect · passive	the lady		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To prevent it from becoming bright green like the other trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 prevent	mark
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 prevent	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 becoming	mark
5	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 prevent	advcl
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 green	amod
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 becoming	xcomp
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 trees	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 trees	amod
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 becoming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent	to-infinitive		it					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme
2	become	gerund						like the other trees; green property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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