Exam question 2 · Grimm, The Musicians of Bremen: the robbers flee from the…

By what means did the animals cause the robbers to abandon the house?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animals · What happens: mean, do, cause, abandon · To what, where: robbers, house

This is exam question 2 of lesson 729 «Grimm, The Musicians of Bremen: the robbers flee from the animals' noisy concert» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animals	det
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cause	nsubj
7	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 robbers	det
9	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cause	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 abandon	mark
11	abandon	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cause	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 abandon	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	do	past			tree rules
3	cause	present	the animals	the robbers	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition robber=Patient
4	abandon	to-infinitive	the animals not said here	the house	vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme house=Source

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

By a huge noisy concert performed loudly right at the open window of the house all night long

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	5 concert	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 concert	det
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 concert	amod
4	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 concert	amod
5	concert	concert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 concert	acl
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	6 performed	advmod
8	right	right	ADV	_	12 window	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 window	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 window	det
11	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 window	amod
12	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 performed	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 window	nmod
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 night	det
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 performed	obl:unmarked
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 night	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform	participle		a huge noisy concert not said here		the open window of the house	night	loudly property	vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By a noisy concert performed at the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 concert	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 concert	det
3	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 concert	amod
4	concert	concert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 concert	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 performed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform	participle		a noisy concert not said here		the window			vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

By a loud bang on the window glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 bang	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bang	det
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bang	amod
4	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 glass	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 glass	det
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 glass	compound
8	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bang	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

By a loud song at the front door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 song	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 song	det
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 song	amod
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
7	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 door	amod
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 song	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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