Exam question 4 · Folk Tales, The Mink and the Wolf, part 1: a sly mink tric…

Through what opening does the mink effect his escape from the feast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: his · What happens: do, escape · To what, where: mink effect, opening

This is exam question 4 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	Through	through	ADP	_	3 opening	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 opening	nsubj
3	opening	opening	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	7 effect	det
6	mink	mink	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 effect	compound
7	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 escape	nmod:poss
9	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 feast	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 feast	det
12	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the mink effect		opening		from the feast	tree rules
2	escape		his = he						nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=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

Through a knot-hole too small for the wolves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	5 hole	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hole	det
3	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hole	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 knot	punct
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 small	advmod
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hole	amod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 wolves	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wolves	det
10	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 small	obl

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

Option 2

Through a narrow gap beneath the roof beam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	4 gap	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gap	det
3	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gap	amod
4	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	8 beam	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beam	det
7	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beam	compound
8	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gap	nmod

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

Option 3

Through a tiny knot-hole in the wall that was far too small for the wolves

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	6 hole	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hole	det
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hole	amod
4	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hole	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 knot	punct
6	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 wall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wall	det
9	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hole	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 small	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 small	cop
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 small	advmod
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 small	advmod
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hole	parataxis
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 wolves	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wolves	det
17	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 small	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that					for the wolves; far, small property	tree rules

Option 4

Through a small hole in the wooden wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	4 hole	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hole	det
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hole	amod
4	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 wall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wall	det
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wall	amod
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hole	nmod

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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