Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Owen and Luned, Owen's lion helps him…

By what means did the lion overcome the giant at the castle?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, do, overcome · To what, where: lion, giant, castle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1327 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Owen and Luned, Owen's lion helps him win Luned back from the giant and the captors» 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 overcome	advcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lion	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	overcome	overcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 overcome	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 castle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 castle	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 overcome	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 overcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past	the lion		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Eventuality
3	overcome	present	the giant	the castle	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot giant=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

He bit the giant's leg

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 bit	nsubj
2	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leg	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 giant	case
6	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	He	the giant's leg					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He sprang up the wall and dropped on the giant

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 sprang	nsubj
2	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 sprang	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wall	det
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sprang	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dropped	cc
7	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sprang	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 giant	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
10	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring up	past	He	the wall					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wall=Theme
2	drop	participle	He not said here					on the giant	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on giant=Trajectory

Option 3

He went up the tower and fell on him

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tower	det
5	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fell	cc
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	He	the tower					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	fall	past	He not said here					on him = he	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He climbed the tower and leapt down upon the giant

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 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tower	det
4	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 leapt	cc
6	leapt	leapt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 climbed	conj
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 leapt	advmod
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 giant	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
10	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leapt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	He	the tower					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tower=Theme
2	leapt down	infinitive	He not said here					upon the giant; down property	tree rules

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