Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What F…

Which person is described as having been struck down upon the staircase of the belfry by the youth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youth · What happens: describe, strike down · To what, where: person, staircase

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1434 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, part 21: the youth warms seven dead men and hangs them back up» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	aux:pass
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 struck	mark
6	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 struck	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 struck	aux:pass
8	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 described	advcl
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 struck	compound:prt
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 staircase	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 staircase	det
12	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 struck	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 belfry	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 belfry	det
15	belfry	belfry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 staircase	nmod
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 youth	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 youth	det
18	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 struck	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		which person					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	strike down	gerund · perfect · passive	the youth			the staircase of the belfry			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon staircase=Location

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

The sexton

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sexton	det
2	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The sexton's wife who lived in the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sexton	det
2	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sexton	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wife	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the sexton's wife			the house			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location

Option 3

The old sexton who ran the village church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sexton	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sexton	amod
3	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 church	det
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 church	compound
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the old sexton	the village church					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme church=Trajectory

Option 4

The mayor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mayor	det
2	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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