Exam question 4 · Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the K…

What did the second man in the forest declare he had been gathering?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man · What happens: do, declare, gather · To what, where: second man, forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1642 «Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter, part 31: three ships, a hermit and two strange helpers» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 declare	obl
9	declare	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gathering	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gathering	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 gathering	aux
13	gathering	gather	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 declare	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past		the second man		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality
2	declare speech: other	present			the forest	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	gather	past · perfect · progressive	man			vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

A handful of brushwood gathered from the edge of the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 handful	det
2	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 brushwood	case
4	brushwood	brushwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 handful	nmod
5	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 handful	acl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 edge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 edge	det
8	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gathered	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 wood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wood	det
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 edge	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	participle		a handful of brushwood not said here		the edge of the wood			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from edge=Source

Option 2

A bundle of reeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bundle	det
2	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 reeds	case
4	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bundle	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A handful of brushwood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 handful	det
2	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 brushwood	case
4	brushwood	brushwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 handful	nmod

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

Option 4

Some dry leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 leaves	det
2	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 leaves	amod
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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