Exam question 2 · Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear: the fox tricks the…

For what purpose did the Lapp break the seal of the bag?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lapp · What happens: break · To what, where: seal

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1243 «Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear: the fox tricks the bear into a fire, then cheats a Lapp of his reindeer.» 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 break	obj
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 break	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Lapp	det
6	Lapp	Lapp	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 break	nsubj
7	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 seal	det
9	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 break	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 bag	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bag	det
12	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seal	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 break	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past · do-support	the Lapp	the seal of the bag					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Patient seal=Result

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

To learn what the bag had

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 learn	mark
2	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 had	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bag	det
5	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 learn	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	to-infinitive							vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	the bag						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

Option 2

To see inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive						inside property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To ascertain the nature of its contents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 ascertain	mark
2	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nature	det
4	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 contents	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 contents	nmod:poss
7	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 nature	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	to-infinitive		the nature of nature's contents					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Topic

Option 4

To find out what it holds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 find	compound:prt
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 holds	obj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 holds	nsubj
6	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 find	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	to-infinitive							vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hold	present	it						vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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