Exam question 1 · Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding-Hood: the wolf tricks t…

Identify the reason given in the text for the wolf's failure to attack the girl immediately in the forest.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wolf · What happens: identify, give, attack, fail · To what, where: reason, text, girl, forest

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1426 «Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding-Hood: the wolf tricks the girl and eats her and her grandmother» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reason	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 text	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 text	det
7	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 failure	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wolf	det
10	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 failure	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 wolf	case
12	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 attack	mark
14	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 given	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 girl	det
16	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 attack	obj
17	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	14 attack	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 forest	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 forest	det
20	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 attack	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the reason			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	give	participle		the reason not said here	the text	for the wolf's failure	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for failure=Asset
3	attack	to-infinitive		the girl	the forest	immediately property	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
4	fail		the wolf				nom failure «act intransitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

The wolf's hesitation caused by the presence of faggot-makers and their noisy axes in the wood

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hesitation	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 wolf	case
4	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hesitation	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 presence	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 presence	det
8	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caused	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 makers	case
10	faggot	faggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 makers	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 faggot	punct
12	makers	maker	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 presence	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 axes	cc
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 axes	nmod:poss
15	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 axes	amod
16	axes	ax	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 makers	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 wood	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wood	det
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caused	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	participle		the wolf's hesitation not said here				by the presence of faggot makers and makers's noisy axes; in the wood	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition in wood=Patient
2	hesitate		the wolf						nom hesitation «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The presence of faggot-makers nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 presence	det
2	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 makers	case
4	faggot	faggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makers	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 faggot	punct
6	makers	maker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 presence	nmod
7	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	2 presence	advmod

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

Option 3

The presence of faggot-makers working nearby in the forest clearing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 presence	det
2	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 makers	case
4	faggot	faggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makers	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 faggot	punct
6	makers	maker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 presence	nmod
7	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 makers	acl
8	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	7 working	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 clearing	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 clearing	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clearing	compound
12	clearing	clearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 working	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	gerund	faggot makers not said here					in the forest clearing; nearby property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in clearing=Theme

Option 4

The presence of woodcutters nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 presence	det
2	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 woodcutters	case
4	woodcutters	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 presence	nmod
5	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	2 presence	advmod

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

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