Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sw…

By what means does the shepherdess ultimately arrive at the rooftop with her sweetheart?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: mean, do, arrive · To what, where: shepherdess, rooftop · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 of lesson 974 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep: the china lovers flee the table, and the old Chinaman is broken and riveted» 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shepherdess	det
6	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	8 arrive	advmod
8	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 does	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 rooftop	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rooftop	det
11	rooftop	rooftop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arrive	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 sweetheart	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sweetheart	nmod:poss
14	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rooftop	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	present	the shepherdess			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherdess=Eventuality
3	arrive	present		the rooftop with her sweetheart	ultimately property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

climbing up the chimney from the stove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 climbing	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chimney	det
4	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 climbing	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 stove	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stove	det
7	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 climbing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	gerund		the chimney		the stove			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient chimney=Extent from stove=Initial_State

Option 2

climbing down the chimney to the roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	4 chimney	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chimney	det
4	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 climbing	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 roof	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 roof	det
7	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 climbing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	gerund				the chimney		to the roof	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme down chimney=Initial_Location to roof=Destination

Option 3

climbing out through the open window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 climbing	compound:prt
3	through	through	ADP	_	6 window	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 window	amod
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 climbing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb out	gerund				the open window			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Trajectory

Option 4

climbing up the chimney from the stove and over the roof tiles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 climbing	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chimney	det
4	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 climbing	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 stove	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stove	det
7	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 climbing	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tiles	cc
9	over	over	ADP	_	12 tiles	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tiles	det
11	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tiles	compound
12	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stove	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	gerund		the chimney		the stove and the roof tiles			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient chimney=Extent from stove=Initial_State

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