Exam question 4 · Gutenberg 640, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son: a snow…

What does the Snow-daughter do upon discovering her brother's violence?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Snow daughter · What happens: do, discover · To what, where: violence

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1724 «Gutenberg 640, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son: a snow girl and a fire boy grow up, and their meeting with the King ends in ruin for all three» 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	7 do	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 daughter	det
4	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Snow	punct
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	9 discovering	mark
9	discovering	discover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 do	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brother	nmod:poss
11	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 violence	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 brother	case
13	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 discovering	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	the Snow daughter						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	discover	gerund	the Snow daughter not said here	daughter's brother's violence					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent violence=Topic

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

She warns him to stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 warns	nsubj
2	warns	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 warns	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stop	mark
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 warns	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	present	She		him = he				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stop	to-infinitive	She not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She flies at him in combat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flies	nsubj
2	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flies	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 combat	case
6	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	She			combat		at him = he	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at he=Location

Option 3

She flies at him in fierce combat, hitting him with ice shards and fury

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flies	nsubj
2	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flies	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 combat	case
6	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 combat	amod
7	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flies	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hitting	punct
9	hitting	hit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 flies	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hitting	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 shards	case
12	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shards	compound
13	shards	shard	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hitting	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fury	cc
15	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shards	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	She			fierce combat		at him = he	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at he=Location
2	hit	gerund	She not said here	him = he				with ice shards and fury	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with shard=Instrument

Option 4

She cries and walks away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cries	nsubj
2	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 walks	cc
4	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cries	conj
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 walks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	She						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk away	present	She not said here					away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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