Exam question 3 · Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Wa…

What was the intention behind Walter's decision to proceed alone?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: intention, Walter · What happens: be, proceed, decide

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 intention	det
4	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 decision	case
6	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 decision	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Walter	case
8	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 intention	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 proceed	mark
10	proceed	proceed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 decision	acl
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 proceed	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the intention behind Walter's decision		tree rules
2	proceed	to-infinitive	the intention behind Walter's decision not said here	alone property	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	decide		Walter		nom decision «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

To get the wolf skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 skin	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 skin	compound
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		the wolf skin					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Stimulus

Option 2

To win the miller's praise and reward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 win	mark
2	win	win	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 miller	det
4	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 praise	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 miller	case
6	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 win	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 reward	cc
8	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 praise	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	to-infinitive		the miller's praise and reward					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent praise=Eventuality
2	praise		the miller						nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To refute the charge that he was a coward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 refute	mark
2	refute	refute	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 charge	det
4	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 refute	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 coward	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 coward	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 coward	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 coward	det
9	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 refute	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refute	to-infinitive		the charge					tree rules
2	is a	past	he	a coward					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

To prove he was not afraid of the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 prove	mark
2	prove	prove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 afraid	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 afraid	advmod
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 prove	ccomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 wood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	to-infinitive							vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past	he					of the wood; afraid property	tree rules

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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