Exam question 1 · Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, part 80: the Musician…

Which animal did the Musician bind to the aspen tree with a long cord?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal · What happens: do · To what, where: Musician bind

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1583 «Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, part 80: the Musician's last trick, then Sigurd's birth and Regin's tale of the gold» 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 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bind	det
5	Musician	musician	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bind	amod
6	bind	bind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	aspen	aspen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	compound
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 cord	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cord	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cord	amod
14	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which animal	the Musician bind				to the aspen tree; with a long cord	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bind=Eventuality

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 little hare that played the cord

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hare	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hare	amod
3	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 played	nsubj
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hare	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cord	det
7	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	the little hare	the cord					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme

Option 2

the small grey hare sitting by the stream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hare	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hare	amod
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hare	amod
4	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hare	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 stream	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stream	det
8	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund	the small grey hare not said here					by the stream	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by stream=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the little hare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hare	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hare	amod
3	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the young bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bear	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bear	amod
3	bear	bear	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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