Exam question 1 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47…

Which object did Esben employ to transport himself across the stream on his second visit to the witch's courtyard?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object, Esben · What happens: employ, transport, visit · To what, where: Esben, stream

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1658 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47: Esben steals the witch's lamp and is sent for a coverlet» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 employ	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 employ	aux
4	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 employ	nsubj
5	employ	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 transport	mark
7	transport	transport	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 employ	xcomp
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 transport	obj
9	across	across	ADP	_	11 stream	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stream	det
11	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 transport	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 visit	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 visit	nmod:poss
14	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 visit	amod
15	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 transport	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 courtyard	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 witch	det
18	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 courtyard	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 witch	case
20	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 visit	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 employ	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	employ	past · do-support	which object				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	transport	to-infinitive	which object not said here	Esben	the stream	on Esben's second visit to the witch's courtyard	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
3	visit		Esben			to the witch's courtyard	nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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 little white stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stick	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stick	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stick	amod
4	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a sturdy wooden boat with two oars and a sail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boat	det
2	sturdy	sturdy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boat	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boat	amod
4	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 oars	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 oars	nummod
7	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 boat	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sail	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sail	det
10	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 oars	conj

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

Option 3

the little white stick that he had found in the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stick	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stick	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stick	amod
4	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 found	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	aux
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 stick	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 wood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wood	det
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · perfect	he	the little white stick not said here		the wood			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Topic

Option 4

a wooden plank bridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bridge	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bridge	amod
3	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bridge	compound
4	bridge	bridge	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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