Exam question 4 · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor…

Which quality of the protagonist is most clearly demonstrated by his conduct with the giants?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: conduct, his · What happens: demonstrate, conduct · To what, where: quality

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 quality	det
2	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 demonstrated	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 protagonist	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 protagonist	det
5	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quality	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 demonstrated	aux:pass
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 clearly	advmod
8	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	9 demonstrated	advmod
9	demonstrated	demonstrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 conduct	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 conduct	nmod:poss
12	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 demonstrated	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 giants	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 giants	det
15	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 conduct	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 demonstrated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demonstrate	present · passive	his conduct with the giants	which quality of the protagonist				clearly property	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Topic
2	conduct		his = he					with the giants	nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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

Loyalty to the King and crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 King	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Loyalty	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 crown	cc
6	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Loyalty	conj

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

Option 2

Great strength

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 strength	amod
2	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Sheer courage in battle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sheer	sheer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 courage	amod
2	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 battle	case
4	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 courage	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cunning exercised under pressure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	exercised	exercise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Cunning	acl
3	under	under	ADP	_	4 pressure	case
4	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exercised	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exercise	participle		Cunning not said here		pressure			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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