Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a w…

What circumstance prevented the wolf from departing the dwelling by his original route?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: circumstance · What happens: prevent, depart, dwell · To what, where: wolf

This is exam question 3 of lesson 749 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a wolf, Tom talks his way out and goes home» 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 circumstance	det
2	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prevented	nsubj
3	prevented	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prevented	obj
6	from	from	SCONJ	_	7 departing	mark
7	departing	depart	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 prevented	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dwelling	det
9	dwelling	dwell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 departing	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 route	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 route	nmod:poss
12	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 route	amod
13	route	route	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dwelling	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 prevented	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prevent	past	what circumstance	the wolf		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer wolf=Theme
2	depart	gerund	what circumstance not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dwell	gerund	what circumstance not said here		by circumstance's original route	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by route=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

Excess of food consumed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Excess	excess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 food	case
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Excess	nmod
4	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Excess	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume	participle		Excess of food not said here					vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Excess of weight gained

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Excess	excess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 weight	case
3	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Excess	nmod
4	gained	gain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Excess	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gain	participle		Excess of weight not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Too heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 heavy	advmod
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Too much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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