Exam question 1 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three ho…

At what point did the knight in copper armour cease his ascent of the glass hill?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: point, knight · What happens: do, cease · To what, where: ascent

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1491 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three horses caught and a knight on the glass hill» 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 knight	det
6	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cease	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 armour	case
8	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 armour	compound
9	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knight	nmod
10	cease	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ascent	nmod:poss
12	ascent	ascent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cease	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 hill	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hill	det
15	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hill	compound
16	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ascent	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	point						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	cease	present	the knight in copper armour	knight's ascent of the glass hill					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector ascent=Eventuality

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

At a point approximately one third of the way up, before sliding all the way back down

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 point	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 point	det
3	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 third	obl
4	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	6 third	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 third	nummod
6	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 third	obl
10	up	up	ADV	_	9 way	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sliding	punct
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 sliding	mark
13	sliding	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 third	acl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 way	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sliding	obl
17	back	back	ADV	_	18 down	advmod
18	down	down	ADV	_	13 sliding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	gerund	one third not said here	all way				down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

After climbing roughly a third of the slope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 climbing	mark
2	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	5 third	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 third	det
5	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbing	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 slope	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 slope	det
8	slope	slope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 third	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	gerund		a third of the slope					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location third=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

At a point approximately one third of the way up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 point	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 point	det
3	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 third	obl
4	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	6 third	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 third	nummod
6	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 third	obl
10	up	up	ADV	_	9 way	advmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

At a spot about a third up the slope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 spot	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spot	det
3	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 third	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 third	det
6	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spot	nmod
7	up	up	ADP	_	3 spot	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 slope	det
9	slope	slope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spot	conj

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

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