Exam question 2 · West Highland Tales, The Steed of Bells, part 13: the thre…

With reference to the passage, what did the Thief of Sloan state was the Knight's sole form of watch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: passage · What happens: be · To what, where: sole form

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1516 «West Highland Tales, The Steed of Bells, part 13: the three princes set out with the Thief of Sloan to reach the Knight's castle» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 form	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 form	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 form	aux
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Thief	det
10	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 form	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 state	case
12	Sloan	Sloan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 state	compound
13	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Thief	nmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 form	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Knight	det
16	Knight	Knight	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 form	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Knight	case
18	sole	sole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 form	amod
19	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passage	appos
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 watch	case
21	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 form	nmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past · do-support	the passage	the Knight's sole form				of watch	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 walls and gates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 walls	det
2	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 gates	cc
4	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walls	conj

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

Option 2

A hundred armed men and a deep moat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hundred	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 men	nummod
3	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 moat	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 moat	det
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 moat	amod
8	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 men	conj

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

Option 3

The bells that ring at every single step

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bells	det
2	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 ring	nsubj
4	ring	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bells	acl:relcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 step	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 step	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 step	amod
8	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	present	the bells					at every single step	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at step=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The steed itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 steed	det
2	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	2 steed	nmod:unmarked

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

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