Exam question 3 · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway,…

By what means was the knight at last awakened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, be, awaken · To what, where: knight

This is exam question 3 of lesson 238 «Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the youngest sister rides off on the Black Bull and wins back her knight» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 knight	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knight	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 knight	det
6	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	SCONJ	_	9 awakened	mark
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 awakened	amod
9	awakened	awaken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 knight	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 knight	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the knight	tree rules
3	awaken	participle	the knight not said here	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

He woke to a loud knock

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 woke	nsubj
2	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 knock	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 knock	det
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 knock	amod
6	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 woke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past	He					to a loud knock	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He heard the lament sung through the night

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 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lament	det
4	lament	lament	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
5	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lament	acl
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 night	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	He	the lament					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lament=Stimulus
2	sing speech: express	participle		the lament not said here			night		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He woke up when his wife called out

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 woke	nsubj
2	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 woke	compound:prt
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 called	advmod
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	nsubj
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 woke	advcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 called	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	past	He						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	call out speech: assert	participle	his wife						vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The cock crowed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cock	det
2	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crowed	nsubj
3	crowed	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crow	past	the cock						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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