Exam question 2 · Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: thieves flee fro…

Which object did the thieves mistake for the falling dew?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, thieves · What happens: do, mistake, fall

This is exam question 2 of lesson 108 «Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: thieves flee from what they think is the Evil One» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thieves	det
5	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mistake	nsubj
6	mistake	mistake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 dew	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dew	det
9	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 dew	amod
10	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mistake	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object		tree rules
2	mistake	present	the thieves	for the falling dew	tree rules
3	fall	gerund			vn occur-48.3 «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 · ← Mova's choice

The sour liquid that the woman had carried up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 liquid	det
2	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 liquid	amod
3	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 carried	nsubj:pass
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carried	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 carried	aux
8	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 liquid	acl:relcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 carried	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry up	past · perfect · passive		the sour liquid					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

The spilled water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
2	spilled	spill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The poured vinegar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 vinegar	det
2	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 vinegar	amod
3	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	participle							vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 4

The vinegar the girl poured from her mug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 vinegar	det
2	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poured	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poured	nsubj
5	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 mug	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mug	nmod:poss
8	mug	mug	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poured	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	past	the vinegar			girl's mug			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from mug=Source

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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