Exam question 4 · English Folk Tales, The Lost Moon: the Evil Things bury th…

Which character first identified the Moon's whereabouts?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: character · What happens: identify · To what, where: whereabouts

This is exam question 4 of lesson 251 «English Folk Tales, The Lost Moon: the Evil Things bury the Moon in the bog, and the marsh folk find her again» 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 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 identified	nsubj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 identified	advmod
4	identified	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Moon	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 whereabouts	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Moon	case
8	whereabouts	whereabouts	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 identified	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 identified	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	past	which character	the Moon's whereabouts				first property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent whereabouts=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

the old Bogle who lived at the far end of the bog lands and knew the paths

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Bogle	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Bogle	amod
3	Bogle	Bogle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lived	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
8	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 end	amod
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 lands	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lands	det
12	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lands	compound
13	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 end	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 knew	cc
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 paths	det
17	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 knew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the old Bogle				at the far end of the bog lands		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location
2	know	past	the old Bogle not said here	the paths					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer path=Stimulus

Option 2

the man from the far side of the marsh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 side	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 side	det
5	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 side	amod
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 marsh	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 marsh	det
9	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 side	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the man from the far end of the bog lands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 end	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
5	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 end	amod
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 lands	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lands	det
9	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lands	compound
10	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 end	nmod

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

Option 4

the man from the far end of the bog lands, who had the strange memory

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lands	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 end	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
5	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 end	amod
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 bog	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bog	det
9	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	nmod
10	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lands	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 memory	det
15	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 memory	amod
16	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	present	the man from the far end of the bog						tree rules
2	have	past		the strange memory					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient

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