Exam question 4 · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the story…

What is the reason that Mongan repeatedly defers his promise to his wife?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: reason, Mongan · What happens: be, defer, promise · To what, where: reason

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1067 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the storyteller Cairide tells his tale to the abbot, while the Flame Lady grows jealous of Duv Laca» 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	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 defers	obj
6	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 defers	nsubj
7	repeatedly	repeatedly	ADV	_	8 defers	advmod
8	defers	defer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl:relcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 promise	nmod:poss
10	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 defers	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 wife	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 defers	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the reason			tree rules
2	defer	present	Mongan	the reason	to Mongan's wife; repeatedly property	tree rules
3	promise		Mongan			nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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

he is afraid the tale is bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 afraid	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tale	det
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bad	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bad	cop
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 afraid	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					afraid property	tree rules
2	is	present	the tale					bad property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he is confused and says he will tell it some other time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 confused	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 confused	cop
3	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 says	cc
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 confused	conj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	obj
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 time	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he			confused property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	he not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	future	he	it	time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 3

he wants to keep the story secret from his wife and the monks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 keep	mark
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 secret	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 secret	compound
7	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 monks	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 monks	det
13	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wife	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the story secret				from his wife and the monks	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer secret=Beneficiary from wife=Eventuality

Option 4

he fears that the story will shame his household at Tara

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fears	nsubj
2	fears	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 shame	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shame	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 shame	aux
7	shame	shame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fears	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 household	nmod:poss
9	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shame	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 Tara	case
11	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 shame	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	present	he						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	shame	future	the story	story's household		Tara			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus household=Experiencer

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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