Exam question 3 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf, part 27: the cal…

Which implement did the bull-calf designate for use against the dragon following its own death?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: implement, dragon, calf · What happens: designate, follow, die · To what, where: own death

This is exam question 3 of lesson 260 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf, part 27: the calf dies, the boy finds a princess» 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 implement	det
2	implement	implement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 designate	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 designate	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 calf	det
5	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 calf	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 bull	punct
7	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 designate	nsubj
8	designate	designate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 use	case
10	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 designate	obl
11	against	against	ADP	_	13 dragon	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dragon	det
13	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 use	nmod
14	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 dragon	acl
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 death	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 death	amod
17	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 following	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 designate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	designate	past · do-support	which implement		for use against the dragon	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	follow	gerund	the dragon not said here	calf's own death		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme
3	die		calf			nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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

The bladder, once blown up and tied off tight with string

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bladder	det
2	bladder	bladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blown	punct
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 blown	advmod
5	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bladder	acl:relcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 blown	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tied	cc
8	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 blown	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 tied	compound:prt
10	tight	tight	ADV	_	8 tied	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 string	case
12	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow up	participle		the bladder not said here				once property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	tie off	participle						with string; tight property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with string=Co-Patient

Option 2

The horn, when blown hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horn	det
2	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blown	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 blown	advmod
5	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 horn	acl
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 blown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	participle						hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The bladder, when blown up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bladder	det
2	bladder	bladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blown	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 blown	advmod
5	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bladder	acl:relcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 blown	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow up	participle							vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The bladder from his own body, to be blown up and struck at the beast

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 bladder	det
2	bladder	bladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 body	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 body	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 body	amod
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bladder	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 blown	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	10 blown	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 blown	aux:pass
10	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bladder	acl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 blown	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 struck	cc
13	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 blown	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 beast	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 beast	det
16	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 struck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow up	to-infinitive · passive							vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»
2	strike	participle						at the beast	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at beast=Patient

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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