Exam question 2 · Folk Tales, The Mink and the Wolf, part 1: a sly mink tric…

By what means does the mink ultimately dispatch the young wolf?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: mean, do, dispatch · To what, where: mink, young wolf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1190 «Folk Tales, The Mink and the Wolf, part 1: a sly mink tricks a hungry wolf, then outwits the whole wolf pack's revenge plan» 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mink	det
6	mink	mink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	8 dispatch	advmod
8	dispatch	dispatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 does	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wolf	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wolf	amod
11	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dispatch	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	present	the mink		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mink=Eventuality
3	dispatch	present	the young wolf	ultimately property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient

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

By hitting him over the head with a club

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 hitting	mark
2	hitting	hit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hitting	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 head	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 head	det
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hitting	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 club	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 club	det
9	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	gerund		him = he		the head		with a club	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with club=Instrument

Option 2

By drowning him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 drowning	mark
2	drowning	drown	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drowning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	gerund		him = he					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

By stabbing him through the heart with a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 stabbing	mark
2	stabbing	stab	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stabbing	obj
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 heart	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heart	det
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stabbing	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 knife	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 knife	det
9	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stabbing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	gerund		him = he		the heart		with a knife	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with knife=Instrument

Option 4

By shooting him in the chest with an arrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 shooting	mark
2	shooting	shoot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shooting	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 chest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chest	det
6	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shooting	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 arrow	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 arrow	det
9	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shooting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	gerund		him = he		the chest		with a arrow	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in chest=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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