Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a b…

Which occupation did the eldest brother select in preference to all others?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: occupation · What happens: select · To what, where: preference

This is exam question 2 of lesson 987 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a book, five brothers, and a street that builds a house» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 occupation	det
2	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 select	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 select	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brother	det
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 brother	amod
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 select	nsubj
7	select	select	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 preference	case
9	preference	preference	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 select	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 others	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 others	det
12	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 select	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	past · do-support	which occupation			preference		to all others	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to other=be'

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 making of carts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 making	det
2	making	making	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 carts	case
4	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 making	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make		carts						nom making «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The manufacture of bricks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 manufacture	det
2	manufacture	manufacture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bricks	case
4	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 manufacture	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manufacture			bricks					nom manufacture «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The manufacture of bricks and tiles for the whole town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 manufacture	det
2	manufacture	manufacture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bricks	case
4	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 manufacture	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tiles	cc
6	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bricks	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 town	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 town	amod
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 manufacture	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manufacture			bricks and tiles				for the whole town	nom manufacture «act transitive»: of=patient for=obl

Option 4

The manufacture of all kinds of bricks, tiles, and clay pots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 manufacture	det
2	manufacture	manufacture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 kinds	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 kinds	det
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 manufacture	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 bricks	case
7	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kinds	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tiles	punct
9	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bricks	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pots	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pots	cc
12	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pots	compound
13	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 manufacture	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manufacture			all kinds of bricks and tiles					nom manufacture «act transitive»: of=patient

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