Exam question 3 · Indian Fairy Tales, How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu, par…

Which fruit did Gudu appropriate for his own consumption beneath the tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fruit, Gudu · What happens: appropriate, consume

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 fruit	det
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appropriate	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 appropriate	aux
4	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 appropriate	nsubj
5	appropriate	appropriate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 consumption	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 consumption	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 consumption	amod
9	consumption	consumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appropriate	obl
10	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	12 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 consumption	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 appropriate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appropriate	past · do-support	which fruit					for Gudu's own consumption beneath the tree	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	consume		Gudu					beneath the tree	nom consumption «act transitive»: poss=agent beneath=obl

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

green fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fruit	amod
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the red fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fruit	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fruit	amod
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the yellow fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fruit	det
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fruit	amod
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the purple berries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 berries	det
2	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 berries	amod
3	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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