Exam question 1 · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid: the bailiff…

Which of the following accurately describes the manner in which the bailiff went out to retrieve the calf?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bailiff · What happens: follow, describe, go out, retrieve · To what, where: manner, calf

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1445 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid: the bailiff is tricked into chasing a calf all night, and at last the wedding is held» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 describes	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 describes	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 describes	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 describes	nsubj
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 describes	advmod
6	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 manner	det
8	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 describes	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 went	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bailiff	det
12	bailiff	bailiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 manner	acl
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 retrieve	mark
16	retrieve	retrieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 went	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 calf	det
18	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 retrieve	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe	present		the manner		accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent manner=Theme
3	go out	past	the bailiff		the manner	out property	tree rules
4	retrieve	to-infinitive	the bailiff not said here	the calf			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He went out as briskly as a boy

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 briskly	advmod
5	briskly	briskly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 boy	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	He					as a boy; briskly, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He went out as slowly as a man

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 slowly	advmod
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 man	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	He					as a man; out, slowly property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He went out as briskly as a boy, straight to the byre with a lantern in his hand

The tree, 18 words

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	5 briskly	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 briskly	advmod
5	briskly	briskly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 boy	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 briskly	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 byre	punct
10	straight	straight	ADV	_	13 byre	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 byre	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 byre	det
13	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 lantern	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lantern	det
16	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 byre	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 hand	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hand	nmod:poss
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	He			boy's hand		to the byre with a lantern; briskly property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He went out the back door quickly

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 door	compound
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	He	the back door				quickly property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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