Exam question 1 · Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Wa…

Which object did Walter carry in order to cut off the ears of the wolves?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: carry, cut off · To what, where: order, ears

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1287 «Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Walter sets off alone into the wood with his toys» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carry	aux
4	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 carry	nsubj
5	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 order	case
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cut	mark
9	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 carry	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 cut	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ears	det
12	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cut	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 wolves	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wolves	det
15	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ears	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 carry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · do-support	which object			order			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in order=Location
2	cut off	to-infinitive	which object not said here	the ears of the wolves					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector ear=Eventuality

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 long knife with a wooden grip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 knife	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knife	amod
3	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 grip	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 grip	det
6	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grip	amod
7	grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knife	nmod

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

Option 2

A small saw from the shed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 saw	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saw	amod
3	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 shed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shed	det
6	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nmod

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

Option 3

A clasp knife with a bone handle and a hook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 knife	det
2	clasp	clasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knife	compound
3	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 handle	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 handle	det
6	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 handle	compound
7	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knife	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hook	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hook	det
10	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knife	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A clasp knife with a bone handle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 knife	det
2	clasp	clasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knife	compound
3	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 handle	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 handle	det
6	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 handle	compound
7	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knife	nmod

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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