Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy: a kind poet lets…

What precise ailment did the arrow inflict upon the aged poet, according to the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: precise ailment, arrow · What happens: do, inflict, accord

This is exam question 4 of lesson 308 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy: a kind poet lets in a wet boy who shoots him with an arrow» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
2	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ailment	amod
3	ailment	ailment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 arrow	det
6	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 inflict	nsubj
7	inflict	inflict	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 poet	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 poet	det
10	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 poet	amod
11	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 inflict	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 narrative	punct
13	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 narrative	case
14	to	to	ADP	_	13 according	fixed
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 narrative	det
16	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 inflict	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	precise ailment		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	inflict	present	the arrow	upon the aged poet; accord the narrative	tree rules
3	accord	gerund			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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

It grazed his left shoulder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grazed	nsubj
2	grazed	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shoulder	nmod:poss
4	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shoulder	amod
5	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grazed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	graze	past	It	his left shoulder					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Experiencer

Option 2

It penetrated deeply into his chest and damaged his heart and lungs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 penetrated	nsubj
2	penetrated	penetrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	2 penetrated	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 chest	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 chest	nmod:poss
6	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 penetrated	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 damaged	cc
8	damaged	damage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 penetrated	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heart	nmod:poss
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 damaged	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lungs	cc
12	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 heart	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	penetrate	past	It			his chest		deeply property	vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	damage	past		his heart and lungs					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It penetrated his heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 penetrated	nsubj
2	penetrated	penetrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 heart	nmod:poss
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 penetrated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	penetrate	past	It	his heart					vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It hit his leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 leg	nmod:poss
4	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	It	his leg					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme leg=Co-Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/308-pg1597-part35/e4/