Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats th…

Which entity did the young man's wand render lifeless on the path to the Ettin's castle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: entity, wand · What happens: do, render

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1963 «English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats the three-headed Ettin with riddles and a magic wand, and frees the king's daughter and the prisoners.» 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 entity	det
2	entity	entity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wand	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 man	case
8	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 render	nsubj
9	render	render	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
10	lifeless	lifeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 render	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 path	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 path	det
13	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lifeless	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 castle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Ettin	det
16	Ettin	Ettin	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 castle	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Ettin	case
18	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 path	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which entity						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	render	present	the young man's wand					lifeless property	vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=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

a monstrous beast with three heads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 beast	det
2	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beast	amod
3	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 heads	case
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 heads	nummod
6	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 beast	nmod

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

Option 2

a fierce hound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hound	det
2	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hound	amod
3	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a monstrous beast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 beast	det
2	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beast	amod
3	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a monstrous beast guarding the path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 beast	det
2	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beast	amod
3	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	guarding	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 beast	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 path	det
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guarding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	gerund	a monstrous beast not said here	the path					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Beneficiary

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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