Exam question 3 · Grimm, Thumbling, part 21: a tiny boy is sold, escapes, an…

In what manner did the child evade capture by the two men?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, evade · To what, where: child, manner, capture

This is exam question 3 of lesson 118 «Grimm, Thumbling, part 21: a tiny boy is sold, escapes, and offers to help thieves rob a pastor» 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 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	evade	evade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	xcomp
8	capture	capture	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 evade	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 men	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 men	det
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 men	nummod
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 evade	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the child		what manner			tree rules
2	evade	infinitive		capture				by the two men	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent capture=Location

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 ran away

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 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	He					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He crept into a mouse-hole

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 crept	nsubj
2	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	7 hole	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hole	det
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hole	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 mouse	punct
7	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	past	He			a mouse hole			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hole=Destination

Option 3

He hid

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 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	He						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He jumped into a bucket

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 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 bucket	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bucket	det
5	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	past	He			a bucket			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bucket=Destination

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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