Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is c…

To what natural phenomenon did the stepmother attribute the rattling noise?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stepmother · What happens: attribute · To what, where: rattling noise

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1945 «English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is crushed by a millstone after the bird sings the truth» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 attribute	obl
3	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 phenomenon	amod
4	phenomenon	phenomenon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 attribute	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stepmother	det
7	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 attribute	nsubj
8	attribute	attribute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 noise	det
10	rattling	rattling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 noise	compound
11	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 attribute	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 attribute	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attribute	past · do-support	the stepmother	the rattling noise					tree rules

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

a loud thunderclap at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 thunderclap	det
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thunderclap	amod
3	thunderclap	thunderclap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thunderclap	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

thunder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 storm	det
2	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a wagon rolling over stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wagon	det
2	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 wagon	acl
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 stones	case
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rolling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	gerund	a wagon not said here			stones			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over stone=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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