Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 14: the Wolf i…

In what manner does the Wolf meet his end in the second ending?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Wolf · What happens: do, meet · To what, where: manner, end, second ending

This is exam question 2 of lesson 111 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 14: the Wolf is caught and Little Red-Cap is eaten, then Dummerly finds a golden goose» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Wolf	det
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 meet	nsubj
7	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 does	parataxis
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 end	nmod:poss
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meet	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 ending	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ending	det
12	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 ending	amod
13	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meet	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present				what manner			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	meet	present	the Wolf	Wolf's end		the second ending			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Co-Agent

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 right answer

He falls into a stone trough and drowns

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	2 falls	nsubj
2	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 trough	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trough	det
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trough	compound
6	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 falls	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 drowns	cc
8	drowns	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 falls	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	He					into a stone trough result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into trough=Result
2	drown	present	He not said here						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He is shot dead

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 shot	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shot	aux:pass
3	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shot	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	present · passive		He				dead property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

He falls and dies

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	2 falls	nsubj
2	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 dies	cc
4	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 falls	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	He						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die	present	He not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

He tumbles into a deep well and drowns

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	2 tumbles	nsubj
2	tumbles	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 well	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 well	det
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 well	amod
6	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tumbles	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 drowns	cc
8	drowns	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tumbles	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tumble	present	He			a deep well			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into well=Initial_Location
2	drown	present	He not said here						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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