Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded…

Which condition describes Browny and Whitey prior to their rescue?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition, Browny · What happens: describe, rescue · To what, where: Browny

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1887 «Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded in the kettle» 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 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 describes	nsubj
3	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Browny	Browny	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 describes	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rescue	cc
6	Whitey	whitey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rescue	amod
7	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	10 rescue	case
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 prior	fixed
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 rescue	nmod:poss
10	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Browny	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present	which condition	Browny and Browny's Whitey rescue					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent browny=Theme
2	rescue		Browny						nom rescue «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 · ← Mova's choice

Tied to a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 tree	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle						to a tree	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to tree=Co-Patient

Option 2

Trapped in a muddy hole outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 hole	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hole	det
4	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hole	amod
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Trapped	obl
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 hole	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trap	participle				a muddy hole			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hole=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tied to a stake in the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 stake	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stake	det
4	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tied	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle				the ground		to a stake	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to stake=Co-Patient

Option 4

Locked in a shed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 shed	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shed	det
4	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	participle				a shed			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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