Exam question 2 · Household Tales, Dullhead: the golden goose, the sticky si…

State the number of persons who were ultimately pursuing the protagonist across the field.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, persons · What happens: state, pursue · To what, where: number, protagonist, field

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1580 «Household Tales, Dullhead: the golden goose, the sticky sisters and the wedding» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 persons	case
5	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 pursuing	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pursuing	aux
8	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	9 pursuing	advmod
9	pursuing	pursue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 persons	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 protagonist	det
11	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pursuing	obj
12	across	across	ADP	_	14 field	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 field	det
14	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pursuing	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of persons					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	pursue	past · progressive	persons	the protagonist		the field		ultimately property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent protagonist=Theme across field=Trajectory

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 · ✓ the right answer

Seven persons were in pursuit of the protagonist.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 persons	nummod
2	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pursuit	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pursuit	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 pursuit	case
5	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 protagonist	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 protagonist	det
8	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pursuit	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pursuit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Seven persons			pursuit		of the protagonist	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Seven persons, all tied in a line, were in pursuit of the protagonist.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 persons	nummod
2	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pursuit	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tied	punct
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 tied	advmod
5	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 persons	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 line	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 line	det
8	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tied	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 persons	punct
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pursuit	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 pursuit	case
12	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 protagonist	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 protagonist	det
15	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pursuit	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 pursuit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		Seven persons not said here		a line		all property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	Seven persons			pursuit		of the protagonist	tree rules

Option 3

Five persons were in pursuit of the protagonist.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 persons	nummod
2	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pursuit	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pursuit	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 pursuit	case
5	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 protagonist	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 protagonist	det
8	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pursuit	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pursuit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Five persons			pursuit		of the protagonist	tree rules

Option 4

Seven persons were in hot pursuit of the protagonist across the whole field.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 persons	nummod
2	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pursuit	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pursuit	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pursuit	case
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pursuit	amod
6	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 protagonist	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 protagonist	det
9	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pursuit	nmod
10	across	across	ADP	_	13 field	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 field	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 field	amod
13	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 protagonist	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pursuit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Seven persons			hot pursuit		of the protagonist across the whole field	tree rules

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