Exam question 2 · Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boot…

Which of the following was the destination of Little Thumb after leaving the Ogre's house?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, be, leave · To what, where: house

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 destination	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	7 destination	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 destination	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 destination	case
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 destination	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 destination	det
7	destination	destination	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Thumb	case
9	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Thumb	amod
10	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 destination	nmod
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 leaving	mark
12	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 destination	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Ogre	det
14	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 house	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Ogre	case
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leaving	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 destination	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past		of the destination; of Little Thumb	tree rules
3	leave	gerund	the Ogre's house		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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 woodcutter's hut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woodcutter	det
2	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hut	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 woodcutter	case
4	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His father's dwelling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dwelling	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 father	case
4	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

His father's dwelling in the village at the edge of the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dwelling	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 father	case
4	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 village	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 village	det
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dwelling	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 edge	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 edge	det
10	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 village	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 forest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forest	det
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 edge	nmod

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

Option 4

The dwelling of his father and his brothers far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dwelling	det
2	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 father	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dwelling	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 brothers	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brothers	nmod:poss
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 father	conj
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	2 dwelling	advmod

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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