Exam question 1 · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor…

By what means did the protagonist first secure the mutual destruction of the giants?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: protagonist · What happens: mean, secure, destroy · To what, where: mutual destruction, giants · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 246 «Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor kills giants, wins a princess and becomes king» 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	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 secure	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 protagonist	det
6	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 secure	nsubj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 secure	advmod
8	secure	secure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 destruction	det
10	mutual	mutual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 destruction	amod
11	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 secure	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 giants	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 giants	det
14	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 destruction	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	secure	past · do-support	the protagonist	the mutual destruction of the giants	first property	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition destruction=Theme
3	destroy			the giants		nom destruction «act transitive»: of=patient

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

By hiding in a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 hiding	mark
2	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 tree	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund				a tree			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

By provoking them with thrown pebbles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 provoking	mark
2	provoking	provoke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 provoking	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 pebbles	case
5	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 pebbles	amod
6	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 provoking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provoke	gerund		them = they				with thrown pebbles	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
2	throw	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

By stealing their food and wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 stealing	mark
2	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 food	nmod:poss
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stealing	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wood	cc
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 food	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund		their food and wood					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme

Option 4

By luring them into a deadly trap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 luring	mark
2	luring	lure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 luring	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 trap	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trap	det
6	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trap	amod
7	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 luring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lure	gerund		them = they				into a deadly trap result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Patient into trap=Result

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