Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serv…

What was the protagonist's final relation to the Red Shoes, as the narrative concludes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: final relation, narrative · What happens: be, conclude

This is exam question 4 of lesson 958 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serves the pastor's family, and dies at peace in church» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 protagonist	det
4	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 relation	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 protagonist	case
6	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 relation	amod
7	relation	relation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 Shoes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Shoes	det
10	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Shoes	compound
11	Shoes	Shoe	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 relation	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 concludes	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 concludes	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 narrative	det
15	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 concludes	nsubj
16	concludes	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Shoes	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the protagonist's final relation to the Red Shoes						tree rules
2	conclude	present	the narrative						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

She was no longer remembered for them by the people of the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 remembered	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remembered	aux:pass
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 longer	advmod
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 remembered	advmod
5	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 remembered	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 people	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 people	det
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 remembered	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 village	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 village	det
13	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 people	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past · passive	the people of the village	She				for them = they; long property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2

She had given them to the poor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 poor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 poor	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · perfect	She	them = they	the poor				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to poor=Recipient

Option 3

She forgot them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	She	them = they					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She was no longer remembered for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 remembered	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remembered	aux:pass
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 longer	advmod
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 remembered	advmod
5	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 remembered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past · passive		She				for them = they; long property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme

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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