Exam question 3 · Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a d…

What was the principal reason Jurgen resolved to depart for Old Skjagen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: be, resolve, depart · To what, where: principal reason

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reason	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 resolved	nsubj
7	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 depart	mark
9	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 resolved	xcomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 Skjagen	case
11	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Skjagen	amod
12	Skjagen	Skjagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 depart	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal reason		tree rules
2	resolve	past	Jurgen	the principal reason not said here		tree rules
3	depart	to-infinitive	Jurgen not said here		for Old Skjagen	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

He wished to flee his grief

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 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 flee	mark
4	flee	flee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 grief	nmod:poss
6	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flee	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	He						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	flee not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	his grief					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme grief=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He sought to experience the wider world

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 sought	nsubj
2	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 experience	mark
4	experience	experience	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sought	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
6	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 world	amod
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 experience	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	past	He						tree rules
2	experience not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	the wider world					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus

Option 3

To escape Martin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 escape	mark
2	escape	escape	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 escape	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	to-infinitive		Martin					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme martin=Initial_Location

Option 4

He sought to find his lost father

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 sought	nsubj
2	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 find	mark
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sought	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 father	amod
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	seek	past	He		tree rules
2	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	his lost father	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic
3	lose	participle			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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