Exam question 3 · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill-Man: Hans becomes a…

In what manner did the hill-man meet his end, as recorded in the concluding passage?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hill man · What happens: meet, record · To what, where: end, manner, concluding passage

This is exam question 3 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meet	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 meet	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 hill	punct
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meet	nsubj
9	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 end	nmod:poss
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meet	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 recorded	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 recorded	mark
14	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 meet	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 passage	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 passage	det
17	concluding	concluding	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 passage	compound
18	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 recorded	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 meet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past · do-support	the hill man	man's end		what manner			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Co-Agent
2	record	participle	the hill man not said here			the concluding passage			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in passage=Destination

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

Killed by a soldier's arrow near the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	6 arrow	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arrow	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 soldier	case
6	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Killed	obl
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arrow	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	participle						by a soldier's arrow near the river	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Struck by a loose stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	5 stone	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stone	det
4	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stone	amod
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Struck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	participle						by a loose stone	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by stone=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Stabbed by a sharp knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stabbed	stab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	5 knife	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 knife	det
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 knife	amod
5	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	participle						by a sharp knife	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by knife=Location

Option 4

Crushed under a heavy rock in the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	5 rock	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rock	det
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rock	amod
5	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Crushed	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Crushed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crush	participle				a heavy rock		in the forest	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1199-pg3027-part65/e3/