Exam question 4 · Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast u…

In what manner do the mice leave the skull once the fiery eyes have entered it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mice · What happens: do, leave, enter · To what, where: manner, skull, fiery eyes

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1272 «Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast until fiery eyes creep into their skull» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mice	det
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leave	nsubj
7	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 skull	det
9	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	obj
10	once	once	SCONJ	_	15 entered	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 eyes	det
12	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eyes	amod
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 entered	nsubj:pass
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 entered	aux
15	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 leave	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 entered	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	present			what manner	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave	present	the mice	the skull		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Theme
3	enter	present · perfect · passive		the fiery eyes		tree rules

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

They retreat noiselessly into the darkness

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 retreat	nsubj
2	retreat	retreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	noiselessly	noiselessly	ADV	_	2 retreat	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 darkness	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 darkness	det
6	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 retreat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retreat	present	They			the darkness		noiselessly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into darkness=Initial_Location

Option 2

They dash out of the skull at once, hopping madly in every direction across the open plain

The tree, 17 words

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 dash	nsubj
2	dash	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 skull	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 skull	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 skull	det
6	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dash	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 dash	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hopping	punct
10	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 dash	advcl
11	madly	madly	ADV	_	10 hopping	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 direction	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 direction	det
14	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hopping	obl
15	across	across	ADP	_	18 plain	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 plain	det
17	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 plain	amod
18	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hopping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dash	present	They			the skull			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out skull=Trajectory
2	hop	gerund	They not said here			every direction		across the open plain; madly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory

Option 3

They scurry off loudly into the grass

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 scurry	nsubj
2	scurry	scurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 scurry	compound:prt
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 scurry	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 grass	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grass	det
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scurry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scurry off	present	They			the grass		loudly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into grass=Destination

Option 4

They sneak out through the back opening

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 sneak	nsubj
2	sneak	sneak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 sneak	compound:prt
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 back	det
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sneak	obl
7	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sneak	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneak out	present	They			the back			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through back=Trajectory
2	open	gerund	They not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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