Exam question 2 · Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Wa…

On what grounds did Jonas decline to accompany Walter into the wood?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grounds · What happens: decline, not accompany · To what, where: Walter, wood

This is exam question 2 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 decline	obl
3	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 decline	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 decline	aux
5	Jonas	Jonas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 decline	nsubj
6	decline	decline	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 accompany	mark
8	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 decline	xcomp
9	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 accompany	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 wood	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 accompany	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 decline	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decline	past · do-support	grounds						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not accompany	to-infinitive	grounds not said here	Walter		the wood			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent walter=Theme into wood=Destination

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

He felt there were only wolves nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 were	expl
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	ccomp
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 wolves	advmod
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 felt	obl
7	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	2 felt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	He	wolves				nearby property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	be	past	He not said here			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He thought one wolf was enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 wolf	nummod
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enough	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 enough	cop
6	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	one wolf					enough property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He judged there would be not more than one wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 judged	nsubj
2	judged	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 judged	advmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 more	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 more	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 one	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 more	fixed
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 wolf	nummod
10	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 judged	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	judge	past	He	one wolf		there			vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	would						more property	tree rules

Option 4

He judged there would be no more than one wolf, and he had work to do at the mill

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 judged	nsubj
2	judged	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 judged	advmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 more	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 more	cop
6	no	no	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 judged	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 wolf	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 wolf	nummod
10	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 judged	conj
15	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 mill	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mill	det
20	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	judge	past	He		there		vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	would				than one wolf; more property	tree rules
3	have	past	he	work			tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	work not said here		the mill		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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