Exam question 2 · Italian Popular Tales, Count Piro: the fox wins a rich bri…

Identify the action by which the fox removes the ogre and his wife from the narrative.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, fox · What happens: identify, remove · To what, where: action, ogre

This is exam question 2 of lesson 702 «Italian Popular Tales, Count Piro: the fox wins a rich bride and tests his master's gratitude» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 action	det
3	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 removes	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fox	det
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 removes	nsubj
8	removes	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ogre	det
10	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 removes	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wife	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ogre	conj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 narrative	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 narrative	det
16	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wife	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the action					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent action=Theme
2	remove	present	the fox	the ogre and fox's wife from the narrative					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ogre=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

He tricks them into the woods and leaves them to starve

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 tricks	nsubj
2	tricks	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tricks	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 woods	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woods	det
6	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tricks	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 leaves	cc
8	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tricks	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 leaves	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 starve	mark
11	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 leaves	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trick	present	He	them = they	into the woods result	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Patient into wood=Result
2	leave	present	He not said here	woods = wood		tree rules
3	starve	to-infinitive	woods = wood not said here			tree rules

Option 2

He burns the castle

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 burns	nsubj
2	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 castle	det
4	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	He	the castle					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent castle=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He shuts them in the oven and sets fire to the kitchen

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 shuts	nsubj
2	shuts	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shuts	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 oven	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oven	det
6	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shuts	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sets	cc
8	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shuts	conj
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sets	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 kitchen	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kitchen	det
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	present	He	them = they		the oven			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	set	present	He not said here	fire				to the kitchen	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result

Option 4

He fools them into a deep pit and seals it

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 fools	nsubj
2	fools	fool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fools	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 pit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pit	det
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pit	amod
7	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fools	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 seals	cc
9	seals	seal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fools	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seals	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	present	He	them = they				into a deep pit result	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Patient into pit=Result
2	seal	present	He not said here	pit					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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