Exam question 2 · Grimm's Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear…

Which utterance did the youth make to the wagoner concerning his own origin?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: utterance, youth, wagoner · What happens: do, make, concern · To what, where: own origin

This is exam question 2 of lesson 103 «Grimm's Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 6: the youth fights the cats and the wild bed in the castle» 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 utterance	det
2	utterance	utterance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 wagoner	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wagoner	det
9	wagoner	wagoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obl
10	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 wagoner	acl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 origin	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 origin	amod
13	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 concerning	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	which utterance			tree rules
2	make	present	the youth		to the wagoner	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	concern	gerund	the wagoner not said here	utterance's own origin		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus origin=Experiencer

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

"I came from the sea"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	past	I			the sea			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

"I do not know"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know in a quote	present · do-support	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

"I left my father's house"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 father	case
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave in a quote	past	I	my father's house					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

Option 4

"I was born in the town"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 born	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 born	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 born	aux:pass
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 town	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 born	obl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 born	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear in a quote	past · passive		I		the town			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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