Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little Red-Cap, part 1: a wolf tricks…

Which consideration restrained the huntsman from discharging his firearm upon the sleeping wolf?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: consideration · What happens: restrain, discharge · To what, where: huntsman, firearm

This is exam question 4 of lesson 746 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little Red-Cap, part 1: a wolf tricks Red-Cap off the path and eats her grandmother» 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 consideration	det
2	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 restrained	nsubj
3	restrained	restrain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 huntsman	det
5	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 restrained	obj
6	from	from	SCONJ	_	7 discharging	mark
7	discharging	discharge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 restrained	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 firearm	nmod:poss
9	firearm	firearm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 discharging	obj
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 wolf	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wolf	det
12	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wolf	compound
13	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 discharging	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 restrained	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	restrain	past	which consideration	the huntsman					vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer huntsman=Eventuality
2	discharge	gerund	which consideration not said here	consideration's firearm				upon the sleeping wolf	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firearm=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

the wolf might still be awake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 awake	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 awake	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 awake	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 awake	cop
6	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	the wolf				still	awake property	tree rules

Option 2

the chance the grandmother was still alive inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chance	det
2	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 alive	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grandmother	det
4	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chance	nmod:unmarked
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 alive	cop
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 alive	advmod
7	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	inside	inside	ADV	_	7 alive	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the chance the grandmother				still	alive, inside property	tree rules

Option 3

the grandmother might still be alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grandmother	det
2	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 alive	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 alive	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 alive	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 alive	cop
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	the grandmother				still	alive property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the possible survival of the grandmother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 survival	det
2	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 survival	amod
3	survival	survival	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 grandmother	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grandmother	det
6	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 survival	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive			the grandmother					nom survival «state transitive»: of=patient

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