Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the…

Which device did the Soldier employ to summon the canine attendants?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: device · What happens: do, summon · To what, where: Soldier employ, canine attendants

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1738 «Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the Princess, is jailed, and is sentenced to hang» 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 device	det
2	device	device	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 employ	det
5	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 employ	compound
6	employ	employ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 summon	mark
8	summon	summon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 employ	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 attendants	det
10	canine	canine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 attendants	amod
11	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 summon	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which device	the Soldier employ					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality
2	summon	to-infinitive	which device not said here	the canine attendants					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendant=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

the tinder-box, struck in succession

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 box	det
2	tinder	tinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 box	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 tinder	punct
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 struck	punct
6	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 box	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 succession	case
8	succession	succession	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 struck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	participle		the tinder box not said here		succession			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in succession=Location

Option 2

a wooden whistle carved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 whistle	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 whistle	amod
3	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 whistle	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	participle		a wooden whistle not said here					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

a silver whistle blown three times at the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 whistle	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 whistle	amod
3	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 whistle	acl
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blown	obl:unmarked
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 gate	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gate	det
9	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	participle		a silver whistle not said here		the gate	time		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a tinder-box struck in succession by the Soldier's hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 box	det
2	tinder	tinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 box	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 tinder	punct
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 box	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 succession	case
7	succession	succession	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 struck	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	12 hand	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Soldier	det
10	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hand	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Soldier	case
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 struck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	participle		a tinder box not said here		succession		by the Soldier's hand	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in succession=Location

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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