Exam question 2 · Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, part 80: the Musician…

Which weapon did the woodman raise in order to protect the Musician from the beasts?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: weapon · What happens: do, protect · To what, where: woodman raise, Musician

This is exam question 2 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 weapon	det
2	weapon	weapon	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 raise	det
5	woodman	woodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 raise	compound
6	raise	raise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 protect	mark
8	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 in	fixed
9	to	to	PART	_	10 protect	mark
10	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 raise	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Musician	det
12	Musician	musician	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 protect	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 beasts	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beasts	det
15	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 protect	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which weapon	the woodman raise					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raise=Eventuality
2	protect	to-infinitive	which weapon not said here	the Musician				from the beasts	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent musician=Beneficiary from beast=Theme

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

the glittering axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the sharp glittering hatchet from his belt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hatchet	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hatchet	amod
3	glittering	glittering	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hatchet	compound
4	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 belt	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 belt	nmod:poss
7	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hatchet	nmod

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

Option 3

the iron spear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spear	det
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spear	compound
3	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the wooden club

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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