Exam question 4 · Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished…
Which of the following describes the discovery that concludes this part of the narrative?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: discovery · What happens: follow, describe, conclude · To what, where: discovery, part
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1211 «Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished His Task, part 12: Lung-Woman is scalded and the Bad One drowns» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 describes | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 describes | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 describes | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 describes | nsubj |
| 5 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 discovery | det |
| 7 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 describes | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 concludes | nsubj |
| 9 | concludes | conclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 discovery | acl:relcl |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 part | det |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 concludes | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 narrative | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 narrative | det |
| 14 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 part | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 describes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | describe | present | the discovery | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent discovery=Theme | |||||
| 3 | conclude | present | the discovery | this part of the narrative | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
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 stone bowl and a bird on the roof
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bowl | det |
| 2 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bowl | compound |
| 3 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bird | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bowl | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 roof | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 roof | det |
| 9 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bowl | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A heap of food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 heap | det |
| 2 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 food | case |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heap | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A hut heaped with food and a watching robin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hut | det |
| 2 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | heaped | heap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hut | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 food | case |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heaped | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 robin | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 robin | det |
| 8 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 robin | amod |
| 9 | robin | robin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 food | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heap | participle | a hut not said here | with food and a watching robin | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with food=Theme | ||||
| 2 | watch | gerund | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
A robin on a branch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 robin | det |
| 2 | robin | robin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 branch | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 branch | det |
| 5 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 robin | nmod |
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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