Exam question 1 · Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells ho…

Which penalty did the spectre state would follow a fourth visit to the treasure chamber?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: penalty · What happens: follow · To what, where: fourth visit, treasure chamber

This is exam question 1 of lesson 686 «Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells how to win the root, and poor Peter makes a plan» 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 penalty	det
2	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 follow	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 follow	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 state	det
5	spectre	spectre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 state	compound
6	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 follow	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 follow	aux
8	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 visit	det
10	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 visit	amod
11	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 follow	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 chamber	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 chamber	det
14	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 chamber	compound
15	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 follow	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 follow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	would · past · do-support	which penalty	a fourth visit		the treasure chamber			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent visit=Theme to chamber=Trajectory

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

Death by fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 fire	case
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Death	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die		fire						nom death «event intransitive»: by=agent

Option 2

Madness that ends in the cold river water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Madness	madness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 ends	nsubj
3	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Madness	acl:relcl
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 water	compound
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	present	Madness			the cold river water			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

A fall down the steep stone steps, a broken leg, and a curse

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fall	det
2	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	7 steps	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 steps	det
5	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 steps	amod
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 steps	compound
7	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fall	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 leg	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 leg	det
10	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 leg	amod
11	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 steps	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fall	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 curse	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 curse	det
15	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A fall down the stone steps and a broken leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fall	det
2	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	6 steps	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 steps	det
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 steps	compound
6	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fall	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 leg	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 leg	det
9	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 leg	amod
10	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 steps	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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