Exam question 1 · Jackal Tales, The Adventures of the Jackal's Eldest Son, p…

To whom did the lion's judgment assign the garment, according to the rule proclaimed?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: judgment, lion · What happens: assign, accord, proclaim, judge · To what, where: garment, rule

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1164 «Jackal Tales, The Adventures of the Jackal's Eldest Son, part 30: the jackal cheats the hyena, the lion, and the hedgehog» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 assign	obl
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 assign	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lion	det
5	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 judgment	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 lion	case
7	judgment	judgment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 assign	nsubj
8	assign	assign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 garment	det
10	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 assign	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rule	punct
12	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 rule	case
13	to	to	ADP	_	12 according	fixed
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rule	det
15	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 assign	parataxis
16	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 rule	acl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 assign	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	assign	past · do-support	the lion's judgment	the garment	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent garment=Theme to whom=Goal
2	accord	gerund			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	proclaim	participle		the rule not said here	vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	judge		the lion		nom judgment «cognition transitive»: 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

To whoever the hyena chooses after the long night ends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 whoever	case
2	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hyena	det
4	hyena	hyena	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chooses	nsubj
5	chooses	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whoever	acl:relcl
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 ends	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 night	amod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ends	nsubj
10	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 chooses	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	present	the hyena						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	end	present	the long night						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To the one who rang it first and then ran off home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 one	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rang	obl
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 rang	nsubj
5	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rang	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 rang	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ran	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 ran	advmod
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rang	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 ran	compound:prt
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ran	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	past		it	the one			first property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	run off	past		home			then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme home=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To the first who rang the bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	SCONJ	_	5 rang	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 first	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 rang	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 rang	nsubj
5	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bell	det
7	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	past	the first	the bell					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme

Option 4

To the one who was fastest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 one	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fastest	obl
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 fastest	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fastest	cop
6	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past			the one			fast property	tree rules

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