Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 167: prizes ar…

What became of the red shoes after Karen had worn them to her mother's funeral?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Karen · What happens: become, wear · To what, where: shoes

This is exam question 4 of lesson 956 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 167: prizes are argued over, then poor Karen gets red shoes and is taken away» 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 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 shoes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shoes	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shoes	amod
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 became	obl
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 worn	mark
8	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 worn	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 worn	aux
10	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 became	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 worn	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 funeral	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 funeral	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 mother	case
16	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 worn	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past						of the red shoes	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	wear	past · perfect	Karen	shoes = shoe				to Karen's mother's funeral	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source

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

They were given to a poor beggar on the road outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 beggar	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 beggar	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beggar	amod
7	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obl
11	outside	outside	ADV	_	10 road	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		They	a poor beggar	the road			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: subject=Theme to beggar=Recipient on road=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They were burnt on the instruction of the old lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 burnt	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burnt	aux:pass
3	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 instruction	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 instruction	det
6	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burnt	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 lady	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lady	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lady	amod
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 instruction	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	past · passive		They		the instruction of the old lady			tree rules
2	instruct			the old lady					nom instruction «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The old lady burnt them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lady	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lady	amod
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burnt	nsubj
4	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burnt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	past	the old lady	them = they					tree rules

Option 4

They were burnt by Karen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 burnt	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burnt	aux:pass
3	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 Karen	case
5	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 burnt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	past · passive	Karen	They					tree rules

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