Exam question 1 · Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine, part 27: the wolveri…

Which object did the wolverine first encounter upon turning a corner on the hill-side?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, wolverine first encounter · What happens: do, turn · To what, where: wolverine first encounter, corner, hill side

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1226 «Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine, part 27: the wolverine tricks a bear up a tree after a rock, lightning and a torn coat» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 encounter	det
5	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 encounter	compound
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 encounter	amod
7	encounter	encounter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	9 turning	mark
9	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 encounter	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 corner	det
11	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turning	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	16 side	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 side	det
14	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 side	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 hill	punct
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turning	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the wolverine first encounter					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent encounter=Eventuality
2	turn	gerund	the wolverine first encounter not said here	a corner		the hill side			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=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

A tall stone pillar that was covered in moss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pillar	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pillar	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pillar	compound
4	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 covered	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 covered	aux:pass
7	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pillar	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 moss	case
9	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		a tall stone pillar				in moss	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in moss=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A wide stream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stream	det
2	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stream	amod
3	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A huge boulder sitting beside the path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boulder	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boulder	amod
3	boulder	boulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 boulder	acl
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	7 path	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 path	det
7	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund	a huge boulder not said here			the path			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside path=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A large rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rock	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rock	amod
3	rock	rock	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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