Exam question 1 · Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a d…

Which of the following did Jurgen do after the quarrel with Martin?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: follow, do

This is exam question 1 of lesson 965 «Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a dead foster-mother, quarrels with Martin, and leaves for the north» 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	4 following	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 following	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
6	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 following	ccomp
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 quarrel	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 quarrel	det
10	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 Martin	case
12	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 quarrel	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 following	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	past · do-support	Jurgen				after the quarrel with Martin		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

He returned to his work without speaking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 returned	nsubj
2	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 work	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 work	nmod:poss
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 returned	obl
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 speaking	mark
7	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 returned	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	return	past	He	to his work result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to work=Result
2	speak speech: other	gerund	He not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	work		his = he		nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

He ran away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	He					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He challenged Martin to a fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 challenged	nsubj
2	challenged	challenge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 challenged	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 fight	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fight	det
6	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 challenged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	challenge	past	He	Martin				to a fight	tree rules

Option 4

He left the village that night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 village	det
4	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obj
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	He	the village			night		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=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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