Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 168: Karen dan…

What did the angel pronounce upon the child as her punishment?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: angel · What happens: pronounce, punish

This is exam question 3 of lesson 957 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 168: Karen dances in her red shoes and cannot stop» 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	5 pronounce	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pronounce	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 angel	det
4	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pronounce	nsubj
5	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 child	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pronounce	obl
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 punishment	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 punishment	nmod:poss
11	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pronounce	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pronounce	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pronounce	past · do-support	the angel					upon the child; as angel's punishment	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	punish		angel						nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Dancing until she was pale and cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 pale	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pale	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pale	cop
5	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Dancing	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cold	cc
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pale	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	she	pale property	tree rules
3	be		she not said here		tree rules

Option 2

Dancing until she was pale and cold and could dance no more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 dance	csubj
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 pale	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pale	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pale	cop
5	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Dancing	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cold	cc
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pale	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pale	cc
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 dance	aux
10	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 dance	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	she		pale property	tree rules
3	be		she not said here			tree rules
4	dance	could	Dancing	more		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme

Option 3

Dancing until she was tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 tired	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tired	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	cop
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Dancing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund							vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	she					tired property	tree rules

Option 4

Dancing in the churchyard until the bells rang out at midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 rang	advcl
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 churchyard	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 churchyard	det
4	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dancing	obl
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 rang	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bells	det
7	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rang	nsubj
8	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 rang	compound:prt
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 midnight	case
11	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund	the bells not said here			the churchyard			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in churchyard=Location
2	ring out	past	the bells				midnight		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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