Exam question 1 · Indian Fairy Tales, How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu, par…

Upon what object did the baboon Gudu cast into the stream, thereby causing the rabbit to relinquish his provisions?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, Gudu · What happens: do, cast, cause, relinquish, provide · To what, where: baboon, stream, rabbit, provisions

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1139 «Indian Fairy Tales, How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu, part 1: Gudu cheats Isuro of food on the road» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 baboon	det
6	baboon	baboon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cast	nsubj
8	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 baboon	acl:relcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 stream	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stream	det
11	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cast	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 causing	punct
13	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	14 causing	advmod
14	causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 did	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rabbit	det
16	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 causing	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 relinquish	mark
18	relinquish	relinquish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 causing	advcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 provisions	nmod:poss
20	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 relinquish	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	object	the baboon			tree rules
2	cast	past	Gudu	the baboon not said here	the stream		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent baboon=Material into stream=Product
3	cause	gerund	object not said here	the rabbit		thereby property	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rabbit=Patient
4	relinquish	to-infinitive	object not said here	Gudu's provisions			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent provision=Theme
5	provide		Gudu				nom provision «communication intransitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

a small pebble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pebble	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pebble	amod
3	pebble	pebble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a large stone thrown from the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stone	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stone	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 bank	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bank	det
7	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	participle		a large stone not said here		the bank			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from bank=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a large stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stone	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a large smooth stone from the riverbed nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stone	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stone	amod
3	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stone	amod
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 riverbed	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 riverbed	det
7	riverbed	riverbed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stone	nmod
8	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	4 stone	conj

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

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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