Exam question 3 · Household Tales, The Travels of Tom Thumb, part 27: the Fr…

How did the Prince establish the cause of the noise behind the carriage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: be, establish, cause · To what, where: cause, noise

This is exam question 3 of lesson 124 «Household Tales, The Travels of Tom Thumb, part 27: the Frog becomes a Prince, Henry's bands break, and Tom Thumb ends up in a cow» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 establish	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 establish	nsubj
5	establish	establish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cause	det
7	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 establish	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 noise	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 noise	det
10	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cause	nmod
11	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 carriage	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 carriage	det
13	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 noise	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 establish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			how property	tree rules
2	establish	present	the Prince	the cause of the noise behind the carriage		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient
3	cause			the noise behind the carriage		nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient

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

He called out to a passing farmer in the road

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 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 called	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 farmer	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 farmer	det
6	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 farmer	amod
7	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 farmer	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	past	He		a passing farmer in the road				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to farmer=Recipient
2	pass	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He inquired of his trusted servant Henry through the window

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 inquired	nsubj
2	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 servant	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 servant	nmod:poss
5	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 servant	amod
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 inquired	obl
7	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 servant	appos
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 window	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 window	det
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 inquired	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inquire speech: other	past	He			the window		of his trusted servant	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of servant=Recipient
2	trust	participle							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He looked out the door

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 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 looked	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look out	past	He	the door					vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He asked the driver

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 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 driver	det
4	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	He		the driver				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent driver=Recipient

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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