Exam question 4 · Grimm's Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear…

What was the condition of the youth on the morning following his vigil?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: morning · What happens: be, follow · To what, where: condition, vigil

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 condition	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 condition	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 condition	det
4	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 youth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 youth	det
7	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 condition	nmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 morning	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 condition	nmod
11	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 morning	acl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 vigil	nmod:poss
13	vigil	vigil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 following	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 condition	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the condition			morning	of the youth	tree rules
2	follow	gerund	the morning not said here	his vigil					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vigil=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

He was found sleeping in a cellar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	aux:pass
3	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 found	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cellar	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cellar	det
7	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		He					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	sleep	gerund	He not said here			a cellar			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cellar=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was found alive and unharmed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	aux:pass
3	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 found	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 unharmed	cc
6	unharmed	unharmed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 alive	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		He				alive property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 3

He was found bound by spectres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	aux:pass
3	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 found	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 spectres	case
6	spectres	spectre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		He					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	bind	participle	He not said here					by spectres	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

He was found fleeing the castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	aux:pass
3	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	fleeing	flee	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 found	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 castle	det
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fleeing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		He					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	flee	gerund	He not said here	the castle					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme castle=Initial_Location

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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