Exam question 2 · Grimm's Tales, The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet,…

Which creature was compelled, under threat of violence, to draw the carriage of the two travellers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: compel, draw · To what, where: creature, threat, carriage

This is exam question 2 of lesson 738 «Grimm's Tales, The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet, part 14: the goose-girl is avenged, then the friends drive to visit Mr Korbes» 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 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 compelled	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 compelled	aux:pass
4	compelled	compel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 threat	punct
6	under	under	ADP	_	7 threat	case
7	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 compelled	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 violence	case
9	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threat	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 draw	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 draw	mark
12	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 compelled	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 carriage	det
14	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 draw	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 travellers	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 travellers	det
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 travellers	nummod
18	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 carriage	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 compelled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compel	past · passive		which creature		threat of violence			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	draw	to-infinitive		the carriage of the two travellers					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=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

Mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The duck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 duck	det
2	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The goose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goose	det
2	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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