Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gellert: Llewelyn slays his loyal houn…

Which of the following correctly identifies the creature slain by the greyhound Gellert within the nursery?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, identify, slay · To what, where: creature

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2015 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gellert: Llewelyn slays his loyal hound by mistake» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 following	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 following	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	6 identifies	advmod
6	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 creature	det
8	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obj
9	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 creature	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 greyhound	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 greyhound	det
12	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slain	obl
13	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 greyhound	appos
14	within	within	ADP	_	16 nursery	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 nursery	det
16	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slain	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 following	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present	the creature	correctly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent creature=Theme
3	slay	participle	the creature not said here	by the greyhound; within the nursery	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: 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 hungry grey wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wolf	amod
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wolf	amod
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a great gaunt wolf that had come in from the mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wolf	amod
3	gaunt	gaunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wolf	amod
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 come	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 wolf	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 mountains	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mountains	det
11	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in	past · perfect	a great gaunt wolf			the mountains			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mountain=Initial_Location

Option 3

the great gaunt wolf that Gellert had killed in the nursery during the night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wolf	amod
3	gaunt	gaunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wolf	amod
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 killed	nsubj:pass
6	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 killed	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 killed	aux
8	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wolf	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 nursery	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nursery	det
11	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 killed	obl
12	during	during	ADP	_	14 night	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 killed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past · perfect · passive		the great gaunt wolf		the nursery	night		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a great gaunt wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wolf	amod
3	gaunt	gaunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wolf	amod
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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