Exam question 4 · Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirst…

According to the text, in what manner did trained hawks ordinarily pursue their quarry?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trained hawks · What happens: accord, train, pursue · To what, where: text, quarry

This is exam question 4 of lesson 354 «Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirsty king is kept from drinking by his pet hawk» 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	According	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 what	csubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 text	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 text	det
4	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 According	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
8	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 what	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 trained	aux:pass
10	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 hawks	amod
11	hawks	hawk	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pursue	nsubj
12	ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	_	13 pursue	advmod
13	pursue	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 quarry	nmod:poss
15	quarry	quarry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pursue	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund			to the text goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to text=Goal
2	train	past · do-support				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»
3	pursue	present	trained hawks	hawks's quarry	ordinarily property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarry=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

swooping swiftly upon the prey from the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	swooping	swoop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	1 swooping	advmod
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 prey	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prey	det
5	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 swooping	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 swooping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swoop	gerund				the sky		upon the prey; swiftly property	tree rules

Option 2

perching on the king's wrist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	perching	perch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	6 wrist	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrist	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 perching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perch	gerund				the king's wrist			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wrist=Location

Option 3

circling high above the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	circling	circle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 circling	advmod
3	above	above	ADP	_	5 trees	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trees	det
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 circling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	circle	gerund				the trees		high property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

swooping swiftly upon the prey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	swooping	swoop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	1 swooping	advmod
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 prey	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prey	det
5	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 swooping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swoop	gerund						upon the prey; swiftly property	tree rules

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