Exam question 3 · Grimm's Tales, The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet,…

Which of the following accurately records the sequence in which the landlord was injured by the needle and the pin?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: needle · What happens: follow, record, injure · To what, where: sequence, landlord

This is exam question 3 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 following	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 following	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 records	advmod
6	records	record	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sequence	det
8	sequence	sequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 records	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 injured	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 landlord	det
12	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 injured	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 injured	aux:pass
14	injured	injure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sequence	acl:relcl
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 needle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 needle	det
17	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 injured	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pin	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pin	det
20	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 needle	conj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 following	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	record	present		the sequence		accurately property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sequence=Theme
3	injure	past · passive	the needle and the pin	the landlord	the sequence		tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

The handkerchief, then the easy chair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 handkerchief	det
2	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chair	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 chair	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chair	det
6	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chair	amod
7	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 handkerchief	conj

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

Option 2

The easy chair first, then the handkerchief, then the cheek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chair	det
2	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chair	amod
3	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 chair	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 handkerchief	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 handkerchief	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 handkerchief	det
8	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chair	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cheek	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 cheek	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cheek	det
12	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chair	conj

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

Option 3

First the cupboard, then the chair and the handkerchief together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 cupboard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cupboard	det
3	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chair	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 chair	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chair	det
7	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cupboard	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 handkerchief	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 handkerchief	det
10	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cupboard	conj
11	together	together	ADV	_	3 cupboard	advmod

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

Option 4

The easy chair, then the cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chair	det
2	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chair	amod
3	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cloth	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 cloth	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cloth	det
7	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chair	conj

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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