Exam question 3 · Norse Tales, The Blue Bull, part 45: the princess and the…

What did the Bull instruct the princess to do with the detached leaf?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bull · What happens: instruct, do, detach · To what, where: princess

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1548 «Norse Tales, The Blue Bull, part 45: the princess and the Bull flee, and she tears leaves in three magic woods» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 instruct	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 instruct	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Bull	det
4	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 instruct	nsubj
5	instruct	instruct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 instruct	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 princess	acl
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 leaf	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 leaf	det
12	detached	detach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 leaf	amod
13	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 instruct	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	past · do-support	the Bull	the princess		tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the Bull not said here	the princess not said here	with the detached leaf	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	detach	participle				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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

Keep it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Hide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Eat it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Keep it safe in her pocket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pocket	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pocket	nmod:poss
6	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it		her pocket		safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pocket=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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