Exam question 2 · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill-Man: Hans becomes a…

Which creature did the hill-man assume in order to pursue the dove over the woods and fields?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature · What happens: assume, pursue · To what, where: order, dove, woods

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1199 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill-Man: Hans becomes a ring, the princess is walled up, and the hill-man dies under a stone» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 assume	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 assume	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
5	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 hill	punct
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 assume	nsubj
8	assume	assume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 order	case
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 assume	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 pursue	mark
12	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 assume	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dove	det
14	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pursue	obj
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 woods	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woods	det
17	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pursue	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fields	cc
19	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 woods	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 assume	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assume	past · do-support	which creature			order			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	pursue	to-infinitive	which creature not said here	the dove		the woods and fields			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dove=Theme over wood=Trajectory

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

Crow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A falcon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 falcon	det
2	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A hawk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hawk	det
2	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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