Exam question 3 · The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white…

Which phrase accurately identifies the mode of travel the dragon adopted after leaving the North Pole?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phrase · What happens: identify, adopt, leave · To what, where: mode, dragon, North Pole

This is exam question 3 of lesson 646 «The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white feathers, a moth army, and a melting dragon» 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 phrase	det
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 identifies	nsubj
3	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	4 identifies	advmod
4	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mode	det
6	mode	mode	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 identifies	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 travel	case
8	travel	travel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mode	nmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dragon	det
10	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 travel	appos
11	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 dragon	acl
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 leaving	mark
13	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 adopted	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Pole	det
15	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Pole	compound
16	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 leaving	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 identifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	present	which phrase	the mode of travel	accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mode=Theme
2	adopt	participle		the dragon not said here		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	leave	gerund		the North Pole		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=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

He crawled south.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crawled	nsubj
2	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	south	south	ADV	_	2 crawled	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crawled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	past	He					south property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He travelled southward down the slide carrying the children on his back.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 travelled	nsubj
2	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	southward	southward	ADV	_	2 travelled	advmod
4	down	down	ADP	_	6 slide	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 slide	det
6	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travelled	obl
7	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 travelled	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 carrying	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 back	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 back	nmod:poss
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carrying	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 travelled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past	He			the slide		southward property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down slide=Trajectory
2	carry	gerund	He not said here	the children		his back			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He crawled southward along the great slide with the children on his back.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crawled	nsubj
2	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	southward	southward	ADV	_	2 crawled	advmod
4	along	along	ADP	_	7 slide	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 slide	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 slide	amod
7	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crawled	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 children	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 children	det
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crawled	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 back	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 back	nmod:poss
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crawled	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crawled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	past	He			his back		along the great slide; with the children; southward property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along slide=Trajectory

Option 4

He flew south.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	south	south	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	He					south property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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