Exam question 3 · Grimm's Tales, Christian the Smith: the smith guards the c…

By what means did the smith leave the church on the third night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: smith · What happens: mean, leave · To what, where: church

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1623 «Grimm's Tales, Christian the Smith: the smith guards the church and frees the princess» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 leave	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 leave	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 smith	det
6	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	nsubj
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 church	det
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 night	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 night	det
12	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 night	amod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	leave	past · do-support	the smith	the church			night		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent church=Theme by what=Location

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

Down a rope from the tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Down	down	ADV	_	3 rope	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rope	det
3	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 tower	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tower	det
6	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rope	nmod

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

Option 2

Through a hidden passage under the altar that led out to the river bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	4 passage	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 passage	det
3	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 passage	amod
4	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 altar	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 altar	det
7	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passage	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 led	nsubj
9	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passage	acl:relcl
10	out	out	ADV	_	9 led	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 bank	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bank	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bank	compound
14	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 led	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead out	past	a hidden passage under the altar					to the river bank; out property	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to bank=Patient

Option 3

Through the old crypt below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	4 crypt	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crypt	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crypt	amod
4	crypt	crypt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	below	below	ADV	_	4 crypt	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

By a high window, opened and climbed through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 window	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 window	det
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 window	amod
4	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 opened	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 window	punct
6	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 climbed	cc
8	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 opened	conj
9	through	through	ADV	_	8 climbed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past						by a high window	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by window=Location
2	climb	past						through property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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