Exam question 3 · Northern Tales, The Underground Workers, part 1: lost Hans…

Which quality of the stranger is established when the drifts part at the wave of his staff?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: establish, wave · To what, where: quality, wave, staff

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1787 «Northern Tales, The Underground Workers, part 1: lost Hans is led to a cave of gold and tiny smiths» 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 quality	det
2	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 established	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 stranger	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stranger	det
5	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quality	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 established	aux:pass
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 part	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 drifts	det
10	drifts	drift	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 part	compound
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 established	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 wave	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wave	det
14	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 established	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 staff	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 staff	nmod:poss
17	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wave	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 established	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	establish	present · passive		which quality of the stranger		the wave of his staff		drifts part obl	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	wave			his staff					nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient

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 power to read the minds of every traveller who passes through the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 power	det
2	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 read	mark
4	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 power	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 minds	det
6	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 read	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 traveller	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 traveller	det
9	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 minds	nmod
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 passes	nsubj
11	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 traveller	acl:relcl
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 wood	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wood	det
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 passes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	read	to-infinitive		the minds of every traveller		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Topic
2	pass	present	every traveller		the wood	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through wood=Location
3	mind			every traveller		nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

supernatural power over the snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 power	amod
2	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 snow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snow	det
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 power	nmod

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

Option 3

the ability to shift mountains and bring spring to the frozen lands by magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ability	det
2	ability	ability	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bring	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 shift	mark
4	shift	shift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ability	acl
5	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shift	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 shift	cc
7	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bring	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 lands	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lands	det
11	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 lands	amod
12	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bring	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 magic	case
14	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shift	to-infinitive	the ability not said here	mountains				vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer mountain=Patient
2	bring	present	the ability		the frozen lands	spring	by magic	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to land=Destination
3	freeze	participle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

magical control of the weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 control	amod
2	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 weather	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 weather	det
5	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 control	nmod

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

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