Exam question 1 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man…

In the narrative, through which agency does the protagonist effect his escape from the household of Farmer Weatherbeard?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: agency · What happens: do, escape · To what, where: protagonist effect, narrative

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1570 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man searches for Jack, and the Eagle carries him to the farmer's house» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 narrative	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 narrative	det
3	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 does	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 narrative	punct
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 agency	det
7	agency	agency	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 does	nsubj
8	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 effect	det
10	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 effect	compound
11	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 does	obj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 escape	nmod:poss
13	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 does	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 household	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 household	det
16	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 does	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Farmer	case
18	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 household	nmod
19	Weatherbeard	Weatherbeard	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Farmer	flat
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	which agency	the protagonist effect		the narrative		from the household of Farmer	tree rules
2	escape		agency						nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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

By magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 magic	case
2	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Through the help of the farmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	3 help	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 help	det
3	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 farmer	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 help	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help			the farmer					nom help «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By the assistance of the Eagle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 assistance	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 assistance	det
3	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Eagle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Eagle	det
6	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 assistance	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assist			the Eagle					nom assistance «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

By the eagle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 eagle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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