Exam question 1 · Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild…

Which action were the huntsmen sent into the forest unable to perform?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: huntsmen · What happens: be, perform · To what, where: forest

This is exam question 1 of lesson 784 «Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild man is caged, a boy frees him» 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 action	det
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl:unmarked
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sent	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 huntsmen	det
5	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sent	nsubj
6	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl
10	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sent	xcomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 perform	mark
12	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 unable	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the huntsmen			the forest		which action obl:unmarked; send, unable property	tree rules
2	perform	to-infinitive	the huntsmen not said here						vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

return from the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 forest	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 forest	det
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 return	nmod

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

Option 2

return from the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 woods	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woods	det
4	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 return	nmod

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

Option 3

leave the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 forest	det
3	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	the forest					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme

Option 4

bring the wild man back alive from the depths of the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bring	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	1 bring	advmod
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 bring	advcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 depths	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 depths	det
9	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 bring	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 trees	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trees	det
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 depths	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	imperative	you not said here	the wild man		the depths of the trees			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent man=Theme from depth=Initial_Location

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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