Exam question 4 · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the ani…

What did the captain do once he had recovered his senses?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: captain · What happens: do, recover · To what, where: senses

This is exam question 4 of lesson 2002 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the animals chase the robbers out of their house» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 captain	det
4	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 recovered	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 recovered	aux
6	once	once	SCONJ	_	9 recovered	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 recovered	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 recovered	aux
9	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 did	ccomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 senses	nmod:poss
11	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 recovered	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	recover	present · perfect · do-support	the captain	captain's senses					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Theme

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

he crawled slowly away to the dark wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crawled	nsubj
2	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 crawled	advmod
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 crawled	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wood	amod
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crawled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl away	past	he			the dark wood		away, slowly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to wood=Destination

Option 2

he walked to the bog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 bog	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bog	det
5	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	he					to the bog result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to bog=Result

Option 3

he limped to the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 limped	nsubj
2	limped	limp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 gate	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 limped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	limp	past	he			the gate			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to gate=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he crawled away to the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crawled	nsubj
2	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 crawled	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crawled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl away	past	he			the wood		away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to wood=Destination

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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