Exam question 3 · Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding-Hood: the wolf tricks t…

Describe the manner in which the girl's grandmother is situated when the wolf arrives.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wolf · What happens: describe, situate, arrive · To what, where: manner, grandmother

This is exam question 3 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	Describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Describe	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 situated	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grandmother	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 girl	case
9	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 situated	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 situated	aux:pass
11	situated	situate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 manner	acl:relcl
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 arrives	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wolf	det
14	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 arrives	nsubj
15	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 situated	advcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	describe	imperative	you not said here	the manner		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent manner=Theme
2	situate	present · passive		the girl's grandmother	the manner	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination
3	arrive	present	the wolf			vn escape-51.1-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Confined to her bed through illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Confined	confine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 bed	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bed	nmod:poss
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Confined	obl
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 illness	case
6	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Confined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confine	participle				illness		to her bed	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to bed=Destination

Option 2

Resting in her chair by the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 chair	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 chair	nmod:poss
4	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Resting	obl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 window	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 window	det
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Resting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	gerund				her chair		by the window	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chair=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Sitting upright in her armchair reading

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	upright	upright	ADV	_	1 Sitting	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 reading	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 reading	nmod:poss
5	armchair	armchair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reading	amod
6	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund				her armchair reading		upright property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in reading=Location
2	read		her = she						nom reading «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Sitting by fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 fire	case
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund						by fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1426-pg503-part13/e3/