Exam question 3 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man…
Which description best characterises the man's conduct at Farmer Weatherbeard's house?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: description, man · What happens: characteris, conduct · To what, where: conduct, house
This is exam question 3 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 description | det |
| 2 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 characterises | nsubj |
| 3 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 2 description | advmod |
| 4 | characterises | characteris | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 man | case |
| 8 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 characterises | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 10 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Weatherbeard | Weatherbeard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Farmer | flat |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Farmer | case |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 characterises | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 characterises | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | characteris | present | which description | the man's conduct | Farmer's house | tree rules | |||
| 2 | conduct | the man | nom conduct «act transitive»: 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
He stealthily removed feathers from sleeping persons, and was brave enough to do it
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 removed | nsubj |
| 2 | stealthily | stealthily | ADV | _ | 3 removed | advmod |
| 3 | removed | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 removed | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 persons | case |
| 6 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 persons | compound |
| 7 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 removed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brave | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 brave | cop |
| 11 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 removed | conj |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 11 brave | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 brave | xcomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 do | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | past | He | feathers | from sleeping persons; stealthily property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme from person=Source | |||
| 2 | is | past | He not said here | brave, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | He not said here | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
He stealthily removed feathers from the sleeping persons in the house and then ran away
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 removed | nsubj |
| 2 | stealthily | stealthily | ADV | _ | 3 removed | advmod |
| 3 | removed | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 removed | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 persons | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 persons | det |
| 7 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 persons | compound |
| 8 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 removed | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 persons | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ran | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 ran | advmod |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 removed | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 ran | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | past | He | feathers | from the sleeping persons in the house; stealthily property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme from person=Source | |||
| 2 | run away | past | He not said here | then | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
He sneakily took bread from the sleeping cook
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | sneakily | sneakily | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 cook | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cook | det |
| 7 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cook | compound |
| 8 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | He | bread | the sleeping cook | sneakily property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bread=Theme from cook=Initial_Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
He stealthily removed feathers from sleeping persons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 removed | nsubj |
| 2 | stealthily | stealthily | ADV | _ | 3 removed | advmod |
| 3 | removed | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 removed | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 persons | case |
| 6 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 persons | compound |
| 7 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 removed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | past | He | feathers | from sleeping persons; stealthily property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme from person=Source |
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