Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 206: a mothe…

What precisely does the old woman accept from the mother in return for her counsel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old woman · What happens: accept · To what, where: return

This is exam question 4 of lesson 995 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 206: a mother follows Death and pays a price» 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=Rel	7 accept	obl
2	precisely	precisely	ADV	_	1 What	advmod
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 accept	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 accept	nsubj
7	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 mother	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mother	det
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 accept	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 return	case
12	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 accept	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 counsel	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 counsel	nmod:poss
15	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 return	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 accept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	present · do-support	the old woman			return for woman's counsel		from the mother	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from mother=Source

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

A bundle of old white linen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bundle	det
2	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 linen	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 linen	amod
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 linen	amod
6	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bundle	nmod

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

Option 2

A basket of winter apples

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 basket	det
2	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 apples	case
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 apples	compound
5	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 basket	nmod

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

Option 3

Her silver ring and cloak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 ring	nmod:poss
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ring	amod
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cloak	cc
5	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ring	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The mother's long black hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hair	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mother	case
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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