Exam question 4 · Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild…

What did the unknown huntsman do upon setting out for the forest?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: unknown huntsman · What happens: do, set out

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 huntsman	det
4	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 huntsman	amod
5	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	8 setting	mark
8	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 do	advcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 setting	compound:prt
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 forest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forest	det
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 setting	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	do	present	the unknown huntsman		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	set out	gerund	the unknown huntsman not said here	for the forest	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

rode into the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 trees	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trees	det
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 rode	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past				the trees			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into tree=Trajectory

Option 2

set off on foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 set	compound:prt
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 foot	case
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set off	imperative	you not said here			foot			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

went with his dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 dog	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dog	nmod:poss
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past						with his dog	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with dog=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

took his dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dog	nmod:poss
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past			his dog				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination

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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