Exam question 3 · Indian Tales, Adventures of an Indian Brave, part 1: the m…

What was the principal cause of the father's death in the river according to the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: father · What happens: be, accord, die · To what, where: principal cause, river

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1191 «Indian Tales, Adventures of an Indian Brave, part 1: the mink escapes the wolves, and a brave's father drowns and returns as a baby» 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 cause	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cause	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cause	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cause	amod
5	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 death	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 father	det
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 death	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 father	case
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cause	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cause	nmod
14	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 narrative	case
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 according	fixed
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 narrative	det
17	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 river	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal cause	the river accord the narrative	of the father's death	tree rules
2	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	die		the father				nom death «event 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

The strap broke and he fell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 strap	det
2	strap	strap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fell	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fell	nsubj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broke	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	the strap						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	fall	past	he						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The river froze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 froze	nsubj
3	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past	the river						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The rope snapped and he drowned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rope	det
2	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snapped	nsubj
3	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 drowned	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drowned	nsubj
6	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 snapped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	past	the rope						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drown	past	rope						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The strap broke and he was swept into rapids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 strap	det
2	strap	strap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 swept	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 swept	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swept	aux:pass
7	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 broke	conj
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 rapids	case
9	rapids	rapid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 swept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	the strap						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	sweep	past · passive		he		rapids			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into rapid=Destination

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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