Exam question 3 · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor…

In what manner was the rebellion ultimately quelled?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, quell · To what, where: rebellion, manner

This is exam question 3 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rebellion	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rebellion	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rebellion	det
6	rebellion	rebellion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	8 quelled	advmod
8	quelled	quell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 rebellion	acl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 rebellion	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the rebellion		what manner			tree rules
2	quell	participle		the rebellion not said here				ultimately property	vn subjugate-42.3 «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

By the gallows frightening the rebels away from the castle walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 gallows	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gallows	det
3	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rebels	amod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rebels	det
6	rebels	rebel	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 away	obl:unmarked
7	away	away	ADV	_	3 gallows	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 walls	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 walls	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walls	compound
11	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 away	obl

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

Option 2

By Johnny riding out alone and hanging their ringleaders one by one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 riding	mark
2	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 riding	nsubj
3	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 riding	compound:prt
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 riding	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hanging	cc
7	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 riding	conj
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ringleaders	nmod:poss
9	ringleaders	ringleader	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hanging	obj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hanging	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride out	gerund	Johnny					alone property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	hang	gerund	Johnny not said here	their ringleaders				one by one obl	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ringleader=Patient

Option 3

By a long and bloody siege of the walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	6 siege	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 siege	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 siege	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bloody	cc
5	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 long	conj
6	siege	siege	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 walls	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 walls	det
9	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 siege	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

By the gallows frightening the rebels away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	4 frightening	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gallows	det
3	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 frightening	nsubj
4	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rebels	det
6	rebels	rebel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 frightening	nsubj
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 frightening	advmod

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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