Exam question 1 · Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks th…
Which of the following is the principal means by which the huntsman effects his escape from the granite mountain?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: his · What happens: follow, be, mean, escape · To what, where: granite mountain
This is exam question 1 of lesson 780 «Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks the witch, her maid and the lady, and turns the tables on them with salad» 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 | 8 means | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 principal | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 principal | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 principal | case |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 principal | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 principal | det |
| 7 | principal | principal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obl |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 effects | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 effects | nsubj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 effects | det |
| 12 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 effects | compound |
| 13 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 means | obl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 escape | nmod:poss |
| 15 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 effects | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 mountain | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mountain | det |
| 18 | granite | granite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mountain | compound |
| 19 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 escape | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | of the principal | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | by the huntsman effects and his escape from the granite mountain | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | escape | his = he | the granite mountain | nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |
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
a cloud carrying him away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cloud | det |
| 2 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 cloud | acl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carrying | obj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 carrying | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry away | gerund | a cloud not said here | him = he | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a sudden flight on wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 flight | det |
| 2 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flight | amod |
| 3 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 wings | case |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flight | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the lady's secret plan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plan | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 lady | case |
| 4 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 plan | amod |
| 5 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plan | the lady | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
the bird's wing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wing | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 bird | case |
| 4 | wing | wing | 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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