Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman…
By what means was the intruder awakened from her slumber?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: her · What happens: mean, be, awaken, slumber · To what, where: intruder, slumber
This is exam question 2 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 intruder | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 intruder | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 intruder | det |
| 6 | intruder | intruder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 intruder | acl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 slumber | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 slumber | nmod:poss |
| 10 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 awakened | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 intruder | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the intruder | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | awaken | participle | the intruder not said here | her slumber | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | slumber | her = she | nom slumber «state intransitive»: 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
by a sharp cry from the Middle Bear's room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 cry | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cry | det |
| 3 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cry | amod |
| 4 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 room | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Bear | det |
| 7 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Bear | compound |
| 8 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 room | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Bear | case |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cry | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
by the shrill voice of the Little, Small, Wee Bear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 voice | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 voice | det |
| 3 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 voice | amod |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Little | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Little | det |
| 7 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 voice | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bear | punct |
| 9 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Bear | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Small | punct |
| 11 | Wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Bear | amod |
| 12 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 voice | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
by a loud noise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 noise | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 noise | det |
| 3 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 noise | amod |
| 4 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
by the gruff voice of the Great Bear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 voice | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 voice | det |
| 3 | gruff | gruff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 voice | amod |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Bear | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Bear | det |
| 7 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Bear | amod |
| 8 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 voice | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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