Exam question 1 · Norse Tales, Cinderlad, part 79: Cinderlad shows the three…

Which knight was clad in silver armour, and to what height did he ascend the glass hill?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: height · What happens: clad, ascend · To what, where: knight, silver armour, glass hill

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1492 «Norse Tales, Cinderlad, part 79: Cinderlad shows the three golden apples» 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 knight	det
2	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clad	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clad	aux:pass
4	clad	clad	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 armour	case
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 armour	compound
7	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clad	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ascend	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ascend	cc
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 what	case
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 ascend	obj
12	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 what	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ascend	aux
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ascend	nsubj
15	ascend	ascend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 clad	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hill	det
17	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hill	compound
18	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ascend	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 clad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clad	past · passive		which knight		silver armour			tree rules
2	ascend	past · do-support	height	the glass hill					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

The silver knight ascended two-thirds of the way up the glass hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knight	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knight	amod
3	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	ascended	ascend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 knight	acl
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 thirds	nummod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 two	punct
7	thirds	third	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ascended	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thirds	nmod
11	up	up	ADP	_	14 hill	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hill	det
13	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hill	compound
14	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 way	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascend	participle	the silver knight not said here	two thirds of the way up the glass hill					vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme third=Trajectory

Option 2

The copper knight ascended one-third of the way up the glass hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knight	det
2	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knight	compound
3	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 third	nsubj
4	ascended	ascend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 third	amod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 third	nummod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
7	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 third	nmod
11	up	up	ADP	_	14 hill	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hill	det
13	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hill	compound
14	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 third	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascend	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The copper knight ascended one-third of the way up the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knight	det
2	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knight	compound
3	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 third	nsubj
4	ascended	ascend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 third	amod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 third	nummod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
7	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 third	nmod
11	up	up	ADP	_	13 hill	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hill	det
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 third	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascend	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The silver knight ascended two-thirds of the way up the glass hill before sliding back down toward the crowd

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knight	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knight	amod
3	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	ascended	ascend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 knight	acl
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 thirds	nummod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 two	punct
7	thirds	third	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ascended	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thirds	nmod
11	up	up	ADP	_	14 hill	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hill	det
13	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hill	compound
14	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 way	nmod
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 sliding	mark
16	sliding	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 knight	acl
17	back	back	ADV	_	18 down	advmod
18	down	down	ADV	_	16 sliding	advmod
19	toward	toward	ADP	_	21 crowd	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 crowd	det
21	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sliding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascend	participle	the silver knight not said here	two thirds of the way up the glass hill					vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme third=Trajectory
2	slide	gerund	the silver knight not said here			the crowd		down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward crowd=Trajectory

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