Exam question 4 · Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding-Hood: the wolf tricks t…

Specify the consequence of the wolf's actions towards the grandmother and Little Red Riding-Hood.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wolf · What happens: specify, act · To what, where: consequence

This is exam question 4 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	Specify	specify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 consequence	det
3	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Specify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 actions	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wolf	det
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 actions	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 wolf	case
8	actions	action	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 consequence	nmod
9	towards	towards	ADP	_	11 grandmother	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grandmother	det
11	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Specify	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Red	cc
13	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Red	amod
14	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 grandmother	nmod
15	Riding	Riding	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Red	flat
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Hood	punct
17	Hood	Hood	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Red	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Specify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	specify	imperative	you not said here	the consequence of the wolf's actions				towards the grandmother Little Red and Hood	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent consequence=Theme
2	act		the wolf						nom action «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

Both are chased by the wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 chased	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 chased	aux:pass
3	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 wolf	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wolf	det
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	present · passive	the wolf	Both					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Both are consumed by the wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 consumed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 consumed	aux:pass
3	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 wolf	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wolf	det
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consumed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume	present · passive	the wolf	Both					vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset

Option 3

She is saved

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	3 saved	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saved	aux:pass
3	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present · passive		She					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Both are saved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 saved	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saved	aux:pass
3	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present · passive		Both					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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