Exam question 2 · Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild…

By which material was the wild man bound before he was conveyed to the castle?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, bind, convey · To what, where: wild man, man, castle

This is exam question 2 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 material	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 material	det
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 man	acl
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 conveyed	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 conveyed	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 conveyed	aux:pass
12	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bound	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 castle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 castle	det
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 conveyed	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the wild man		by which material	tree rules
2	bind	participle	the wild man not said here			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	convey	past · passive	man	the castle		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to castle=Recipient

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

fur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

ropes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cords

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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