Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king re…

Which action did the queen perform upon the Bonnach stone?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: action, queen · What happens: do, perform

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» 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 action	det
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 queen	det
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perform	nsubj
6	perform	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 stone	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stone	det
9	Bonnach	Bonnach	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 stone	compound
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perform	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which action						tree rules
2	perform	present	the queen					upon the Bonnach stone	vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

she tugged it steady on its ledge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tugged	nsubj
2	tugged	tug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tugged	obj
4	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tugged	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ledge	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ledge	nmod:poss
7	ledge	ledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tugged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tug	past	she	it		its ledge		steady property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

she tugged it steady on its ledge and swept the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tugged	nsubj
2	tugged	tug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tugged	obj
4	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tugged	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ledge	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ledge	nmod:poss
7	ledge	ledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tugged	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 swept	cc
9	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tugged	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 floor	det
11	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tug	past	she	it		its ledge		steady property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	sweep	past	she not said here	the floor					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme floor=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

she tugged it steady on its ledge by the cave door at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tugged	nsubj
2	tugged	tug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tugged	obj
4	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tugged	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ledge	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ledge	nmod:poss
7	ledge	ledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tugged	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
10	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 door	compound
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tugged	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tugged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tug	past	she	it		its ledge	night	by the cave door; steady property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

she lifted it off the cold ledge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lifted	nsubj
2	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lifted	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	7 ledge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ledge	det
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ledge	amod
7	ledge	ledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lifted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	past	she	it		the cold ledge			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme off ledge=Destination

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