Exam question 2 · Jurgen's Book, Jurgen, part 178: Jurgen is freed and trave…

To whom does the narrative attribute the offer of a renewed position and of hospitality to Jurgen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, renew, offer · To what, where: narrative attribute, renewed position

This is exam question 2 of lesson 967 «Jurgen's Book, Jurgen, part 178: Jurgen is freed and travels to Skjagen» 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 does	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 attribute	det
5	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attribute	compound
6	attribute	attribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 offer	det
8	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 position	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 position	det
11	renewed	renew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 position	amod
12	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 offer	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hospitality	cc
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 hospitality	case
15	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 position	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Jurgen	case
17	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 hospitality	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present	the narrative attribute	tree rules
2	renew	participle		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	offer		a renewed position and hospitality to Jurgen	nom offer «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

To the shepherd boy Jurgen met

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	4 boy	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	compound
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 met	nsubj
5	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 boy	appos
6	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	the shepherd boy						vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

To the wealthy merchant Bronne, who had known Jurgen's father and who offered him work on his own farm up north

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	4 merchant	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 merchant	det
3	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 merchant	amod
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	Bronne	Bronne	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 merchant	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 known	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 known	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 known	aux
9	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 merchant	parataxis
10	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 father	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Jurgen	case
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 known	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 offered	cc
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 offered	nsubj
15	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 known	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 offered	iobj
17	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 offered	xcomp
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 farm	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 farm	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 farm	amod
21	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 work	obl
22	up	up	ADV	_	23 north	advmod
23	north	north	ADV	_	17 work	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	past · perfect · passive	the wealthy merchant			tree rules
2	offer	past		Jurgen		tree rules
3	work not said to happen	infinitive			on Jurgen's own farm; north property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on farm=Theme

Option 3

To the burgomaster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 burgomaster	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 burgomaster	det
3	burgomaster	burgomaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To the merchant Bronne of Skjagen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 merchant	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	Bronne	Bronne	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 merchant	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Skjagen	case
6	Skjagen	Skjagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Bronne	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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