Exam question 3 · Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear: the fox tricks the…

What was the consequence of the fox's wish upon the Lapp's snow-shoes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fox · What happens: be, wish · To what, where: consequence

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 consequence	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 consequence	det
4	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 wish	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fox	det
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wish	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 fox	case
9	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consequence	nmod
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 shoes	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Lapp	det
12	Lapp	Lapp	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 shoes	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Lapp	case
14	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shoes	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 snow	punct
16	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wish	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the consequence				of the fox's wish upon the Lapp's snow shoes	tree rules
2	wish		the fox					upon the Lapp's snow shoes	nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent upon=obl

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

The snow-shoes snapped in two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shoes	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shoes	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 snow	punct
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 snapped	nsubj
5	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 two	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 snapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	past	the snow shoes			two			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in two=Location

Option 2

They cracked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cracked	nsubj
2	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	past	They						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They snapped right through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 snapped	nsubj
2	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	right	right	ADV	_	4 through	advmod
4	through	through	ADV	_	2 snapped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	past	They					through property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They split down the middle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 split	nsubj
2	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 split	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 split	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split down	past	They	the middle					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent middle=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.

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