Exam question 4 · Indian Fairy Tales, How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu, par…

What reason did Gudu offer for Isuro's abstention from food at the well?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: reason · What happens: offer · To what, where: food

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 offer	obj
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 offer	nsubj:outer
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 offer	aux
4	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 offer	nsubj
5	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 abstention	case
7	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 abstention	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Isuro	case
9	abstention	abstention	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 offer	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 food	case
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 offer	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 well	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 well	det
14	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 offer	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 offer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past · do-support	reason			food		for Isuro's abstention goal; at the well	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent what=Theme for abstention=Goal

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

the custom of the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 custom	det
2	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 village	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 village	det
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 custom	nmod

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

Option 2

the custom of the village forbidding eating before elders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 custom	det
2	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 village	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 village	det
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 custom	nmod
6	forbidding	forbid	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 village	acl
7	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 forbidding	xcomp
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 elders	case
9	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	gerund	the village not said here						vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund	the village not said here				before elders		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

the custom of the village that guests eat last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 custom	det
2	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 last	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 village	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 village	det
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 custom	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 eat	obj
7	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	nsubj
8	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 village	acl:relcl
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	guests	the village					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient

Option 4

the rule of the elders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rule	det
2	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 elders	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 elders	det
5	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rule	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule		the elders						nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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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