Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon, part 11:…

Identify the reason the wolf's bucket rose and fell as it did, in accordance with the text.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, bucket · What happens: identify, rise, fall, do · To what, where: reason, accordance

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1145 «Fairy Book, How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon, part 11: the fox tricks the wolf, and Ian gets a hard task» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bucket	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 wolf	case
7	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rose	nsubj
8	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reason	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fell	cc
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rose	conj
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 did	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fell	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 accordance	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 accordance	case
16	accordance	accordance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 did	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 text	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 text	det
19	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 accordance	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the reason		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	rise	past	the wolf's bucket			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	the wolf's bucket not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	past	bucket	accordance	with the text	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accordance=Eventuality

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

His greater weight drew his bucket down

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	3 weight	nmod:poss
2	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 weight	amod
3	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	nsubj
4	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bucket	nmod:poss
6	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	obj
7	down	down	ADV	_	4 drew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw down	past	His greater weight	weight's bucket				down property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme

Option 2

The water level rose sharply

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 level	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 level	compound
3	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	nsubj
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	4 rose	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the water level					sharply property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The fox had tied the buckets together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tied	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tied	aux
4	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 buckets	det
6	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tied	obj
7	together	together	ADV	_	4 tied	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past · perfect · passive		the fox				together property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient bucket=Result

Option 4

The wolf climbed up the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	nsubj
3	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 climbed	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	the wolf	the wall					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wall=Theme

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