Exam question 4 · Household Stories, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 29: the d…

Which creature confronted the dwarf upon the common and struck him down?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature · What happens: confront, strike down · To what, where: dwarf, creature

This is exam question 4 of lesson 126 «Household Stories, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 29: the dwarf is snagged three times, and the bear becomes a prince» 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 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 confronted	nsubj
3	confronted	confront	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dwarf	det
5	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 confronted	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 common	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 common	det
8	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 confronted	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 struck	cc
10	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 confronted	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 struck	obj
12	down	down	ADP	_	10 struck	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 confronted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confront	past	which creature	the dwarf				upon the common	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Theme
2	strike down	past	which creature not said here	creature					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument

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

A hungry red fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fox	det
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fox	amod
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fox	amod
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A huge black bear that had been living in the woods for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bear	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bear	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bear	amod
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 living	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 living	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 living	aux
8	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 bear	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 woods	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woods	det
11	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 living	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 years	case
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past · perfect · progressive	a huge black bear			the woods	year		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A big black bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bear	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bear	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bear	amod
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The enormous black bear with the shaggy coat and sharp claws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bear	det
2	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bear	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bear	amod
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 coat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coat	det
7	shaggy	shaggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 coat	amod
8	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bear	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 claws	cc
10	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 claws	amod
11	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bear	conj

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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