Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman…

In what manner did the intruder depart from the premises?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: intruder · What happens: depart · To what, where: manner

This is exam question 3 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 depart	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 depart	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 intruder	det
6	intruder	intruder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 depart	nsubj
7	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 premises	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 premises	det
10	premises	premise	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 depart	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 depart	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depart	past · do-support	the intruder			what manner		from the premises	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from premise=Initial_Location

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 the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 door	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

by crawling under the bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 crawling	mark
2	crawling	crawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 bed	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bed	det
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crawling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	gerund				the bed			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under bed=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

by jumping from the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 jumping	mark
2	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 window	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 window	det
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	gerund				the window			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from window=Trajectory

Option 4

by climbing down the stairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 climbing	mark
2	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	5 stairs	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stairs	det
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 climbing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	gerund				the stairs			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down stair=Trajectory

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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