Exam question 3 · Grimm, Halfman, part 61: Halfman outwits the ogress and es…

Specify the means by which Halfman evades the ogre's ultimate design upon his life.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, the, Halfman, ogre · What happens: specify, mean, evade, design · To what, where: ultimate design · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1810 «Grimm, Halfman, part 61: Halfman outwits the ogress and escapes the ogre» 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	Specify	specify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Specify	ccomp
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 evades	obl
6	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 evades	nsubj
7	evades	evade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ogre	det
9	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 design	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 ogre	case
11	ultimate	ultimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 design	amod
12	design	design	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 evades	obj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 life	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 life	nmod:poss
15	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 evades	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Specify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	specify	imperative	you not said here			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	mean	present	the			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	evade	present	Halfman	the ogre's ultimate design	upon Halfman's life	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent design=Location
4	design		the ogre			nom design «act transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

a deceptive fattening arrangement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 arrangement	det
2	deceptive	deceptive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 arrangement	amod
3	fattening	fattening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrangement	compound
4	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a false promise made to the ogre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 promise	det
2	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 promise	amod
3	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 promise	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 ogre	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ogre	det
7	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		a false promise not said here				to the ogre	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 3

a sly bargain with the ogress

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bargain	det
2	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bargain	amod
3	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 ogress	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ogress	det
6	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bargain	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he hid well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 hid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	he					well property	vn concealment-16-1 «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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