Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsm…

Which account did the youth give of the herdsman's oxen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: account, youth · What happens: do, give

This is exam question 1 of lesson 704 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsman: he loses the king's golden ox, dodges the scythes, and wins a bride» 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 account	det
2	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 oxen	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 herdsman	det
9	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 oxen	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 herdsman	case
11	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which account						tree rules
2	give	present	the youth					of the herdsman's oxen	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

that a storm had swept them into the sea one night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 swept	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 storm	det
3	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swept	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swept	aux
5	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swept	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swept	obl
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 night	nummod
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swept	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep	past · perfect	a storm	them = they		the sea	night		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into sea=Destination

Option 2

that they fell into a pit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 fell	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 pit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pit	det
6	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	they					into a pit result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into pit=Result

Option 3

that they had descended into a deep hole in the earth and never returned to the surface again

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 descended	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 descended	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 descended	aux
4	descended	descend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 hole	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hole	det
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hole	amod
8	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 descended	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 earth	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 earth	det
11	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hole	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 returned	cc
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 returned	advmod
14	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 descended	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 surface	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 surface	det
17	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 returned	obl
18	again	again	ADV	_	14 returned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	descend	past · perfect	they			a deep hole in the earth			vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hole=Location
2	not return	past	they not said here				again	to the surface result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to surface=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

that they had descended into a deep hole in the earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 descended	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 descended	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 descended	aux
4	descended	descend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 hole	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hole	det
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hole	amod
8	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 descended	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 earth	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 earth	det
11	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hole	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	descend	past · perfect	they			a deep hole in the earth			vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hole=Location

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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