Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool, part 44: Peronnik s…

Which of the following was the object the youth removed from the orchard before departing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, be, remove, depart · To what, where: youth, orchard

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1319 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool, part 44: Peronnik snares the korigan and rides off» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 object	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	7 object	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 object	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 object	case
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 object	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 object	det
7	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 youth	det
9	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 object	appos
10	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 youth	acl
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 orchard	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 orchard	det
13	orchard	orchard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 removed	obl
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 departing	mark
15	departing	depart	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 removed	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 object	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past			of the object	tree rules
3	remove	participle	the youth not said here	the orchard		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from orchard=Source
4	depart	gerund				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

an apple from the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 apple	det
2	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 tree	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 apple	nmod

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

Option 2

a pear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pear	det
2	pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a red berry from a bush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 berry	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 berry	amod
3	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 bush	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bush	det
6	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 berry	nmod

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

Option 4

fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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