Exam question 3 · English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hoby…

Which creature is responsible for the final destruction of the Hobyahs?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature · What happens: be, destroy · To what, where: Hobyahs

This is exam question 3 of lesson 253 «English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hobyahs are beaten, the fool's mother dies, and a lass offers to help him» 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 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 responsible	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 responsible	cop
4	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 destruction	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 destruction	det
7	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 destruction	amod
8	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 responsible	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Hobyahs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Hobyahs	det
11	Hobyahs	hobyah	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 destruction	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 responsible	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which creature					for the final destruction of the Hobyahs; responsible property	tree rules
2	destroy			the Hobyahs					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 · ✓ the right answer

The large dog belonging to the traveller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 dog	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 traveller	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 traveller	det
7	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 belonging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	gerund	the large dog not said here					to the traveller	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The enormous dog belonging to the traveller who lived in the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 dog	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 traveller	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 traveller	det
7	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 belonging	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 traveller	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 village	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 village	det
12	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	gerund	the enormous dog not said here					to the traveller	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	the traveller			the village			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The large dog that belonged to a passing traveller on the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 belonged	nsubj
5	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dog	acl:relcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 traveller	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 traveller	det
8	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 traveller	amod
9	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 belonged	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 road	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 road	det
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 belonged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	past	the large dog			the road		to a passing traveller	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	pass	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The dog belonging to the farmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 dog	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 farmer	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belonging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	gerund	the dog not said here					to the farmer	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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