Exam question 3 · Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds…

Identify the meaning of the archaic term "importunate" as employed by the faggot-maker in the passage.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, employ, mean · To what, where: meaning, archaic term

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1088 «Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds eat the bread, a storm in the night» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 term	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 term	det
6	archaic	archaic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 term	amod
7	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meaning	nmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 importunate	punct
9	importunate	importunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 term	appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 importunate	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 employed	mark
12	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	advcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	17 maker	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 maker	det
15	faggot	faggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 maker	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 faggot	punct
17	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 employed	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 passage	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 passage	det
20	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 maker	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the meaning of the archaic term		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme
2	employ	participle	you not said here		by the faggot maker in the passage	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	mean			the archaic term		nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

Persistently annoying or troublesome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Persistently	persistently	ADV	_	2 annoying	advmod
2	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 troublesome	cc
4	troublesome	troublesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 annoying	conj

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

Option 2

Wealthy, proud, and too fond of fine clothes and feasts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 proud	punct
3	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wealthy	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fond	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fond	cc
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 fond	advmod
7	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wealthy	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 clothes	case
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clothes	amod
10	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 fond	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 feasts	cc
12	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 clothes	conj

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

Option 3

Constantly bothersome and irritating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Constantly	constantly	ADV	_	2 bothersome	advmod
2	bothersome	bothersome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 irritating	cc
4	irritating	irritating	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bothersome	conj

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

Option 4

Very hungry, poor, and forced to beg for bread from strangers in the village

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 hungry	advmod
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 poor	punct
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hungry	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 forced	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 forced	cc
7	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hungry	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 beg	mark
9	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 forced	xcomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 bread	case
11	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beg	obl
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 strangers	case
13	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 beg	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 village	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 village	det
16	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beg	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	participle							vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	beg speech: request	to-infinitive				strangers		for bread; in the village	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for bread=Topic

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