Exam question 3 · Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

How did the youth respond when the bed overturned upon him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: youth, bed · What happens: respond, overturn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1435 «Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 22: he keeps watch in the haunted castle, fights the animals, and survives the runaway bed» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 respond	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 respond	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 respond	nsubj
5	respond	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 overturned	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bed	det
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 overturned	nsubj
9	overturned	overturn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 respond	ccomp
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 overturned	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 respond	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	respond speech: other	past · do-support	the youth						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	overturn	past	the bed					upon him = he	tree rules

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 right answer

He emerged and lay down to sleep

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 emerged	nsubj
2	emerged	emerge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 lay	cc
4	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 emerged	conj
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sleep	mark
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lay	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	emerge	past	He		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay down	infinitive	He not said here	down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	to-infinitive	He not said here		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He climbed out and lay down again

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	out	out	ADP	_	2 climbed	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lay	cc
5	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 climbed	conj
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 lay	advmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 lay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb out	past	He						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay down	infinitive	He not said here				again	down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He cried out

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 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 cried	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	past	He						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He crawled out and went to bed

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 crawled	nsubj
2	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 crawled	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crawled	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 bed	case
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl out	past	He						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	He not said here			bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_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.

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