Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman…

Which of the three bears first discovered that an unauthorised person had occupied his chair?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: discover, occupy · To what, where: unauthorised person

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1915 «Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman asleep in the bed and she flees» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 discovered	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 bears	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bears	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 bears	nummod
5	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 discovered	obl
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 discovered	advmod
7	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 occupied	mark
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 person	det
10	unauthorised	unauthorised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 person	amod
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 occupied	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 occupied	aux
13	occupied	occupy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 discovered	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 chair	nmod:poss
15	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 occupied	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 discovered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discover	past						of the three bears; first property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic
2	occupy	past · perfect · passive		a unauthorised person					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer chair=Result

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 Little Wee Bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Bear	det
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Bear	amod
3	Wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Bear	amod
4	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the Great, Huge Bear, who was the largest of the three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Bear	det
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Bear	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Great	punct
4	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Bear	amod
5	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 largest	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 largest	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 largest	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 largest	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 largest	det
10	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 three	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 three	det
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 largest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Great Huge Bear					of the three; large property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the Great, Huge Bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Bear	det
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Bear	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Great	punct
4	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Bear	amod
5	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the Great, Huge Bear, who had come home first from the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Bear	det
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Bear	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Great	punct
4	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Bear	amod
5	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 come	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 Bear	acl:relcl
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 come	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 woods	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woods	det
14	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	the Great Huge Bear			the woods		first, home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wood=Initial_Location

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