Exam question 1 · Folk Tales, The Cunning Hare, part 18: Alonzo faces the Ya…

Pursuant to the narrative, to what extent did Alonzo's resolve to resist the apparition ultimately prevail?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: extent, apparition · What happens: do, resist, prevail · To what, where: resolve, apparition

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1217 «Folk Tales, The Cunning Hare, part 18: Alonzo faces the Yara and the hare calls up a spell» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	4 narrative	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 narrative	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrative	det
4	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 narrative	appos
8	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
10	Alonzo	Alonzo	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 resolve	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Alonzo	case
12	resolve	resolve	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 resist	mark
14	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 did	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 apparition	det
16	apparition	apparition	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 resist	obj
17	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	18 prevail	advmod
18	prevail	prevail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 apparition	acl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 narrative	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	extent	Alonzo's resolve		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resolve=Eventuality
2	resist	to-infinitive	extent not said here	the apparition		tree rules
3	prevail	infinitive	the apparition not said here		ultimately property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

He recovered his resolve upon hearing the sea shell

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 recovered	nsubj
2	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 resolve	nmod:poss
4	resolve	resolve	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 recovered	obj
5	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	6 hearing	mark
6	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 recovered	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shell	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shell	compound
9	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hearing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recover	past	He	his resolve					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resolve=Theme
2	hear	gerund	He not said here	the sea shell					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shell=Stimulus

Option 2

He fought off the Yara with his pistol

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 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 Yara	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Yara	det
5	Yara	Yara	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fought	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 pistol	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pistol	nmod:poss
8	pistol	pistol	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight off	past	He	the Yara				with his pistol	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yara=Co-Agent

Option 3

He never resisted the spell

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	3 resisted	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 resisted	advmod
3	resisted	resist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spell	det
5	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 resisted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not resist	past	He	the spell					tree rules

Option 4

He gave up and followed the Yara

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 gave	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 followed	cc
5	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Yara	det
7	Yara	Yara	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 followed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	He						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	follow	past	He not said here	the Yara					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yara=Theme

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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