Exam question 3 · Told by the Natives, The Magic Mirror, part 1: Gopani-Kufa…

By what means did Makoma avoid death after being dashed upon the ground by Sakatirina?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Makoma, Sakatirina · What happens: mean, avoid, dash · To what, where: death, ground

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1137 «Told by the Natives, The Magic Mirror, part 1: Gopani-Kufa frees a python king and is promised a reward» 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	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 avoid	obj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 avoid	aux
5	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 avoid	nsubj
6	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 avoid	obj
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 dashed	mark
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 dashed	aux:pass
10	dashed	dash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 avoid	advcl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dashed	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 Sakatirina	case
15	Sakatirina	Sakatirina	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 dashed	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 avoid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	avoid	past · do-support	Makoma	death		tree rules
3	dash	gerund · passive	Sakatirina		the ground	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ground=Trajectory

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

he got up and wrestled more

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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 got	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wrestled	cc
5	wrestled	wrestle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 got	conj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 wrestled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	wrestle	participle	he not said here						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

he crawled off and was healed

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 crawled	nsubj
2	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 crawled	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 healed	cc
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 healed	aux:pass
6	healed	heal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 crawled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl off	past	he						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	heal	past · passive	he not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»

Option 3

he hid away

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 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 hid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide away	past	he					away property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he rose stronger and wrestled on

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 rose	nsubj
2	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 rose	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wrestled	cc
5	wrestled	wrestle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rose	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 wrestled	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	he					strong property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wrestle on	participle	he not said here						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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