Exam question 3 · Indian Folklore, Ball-Carrier, part 13: the witch buries t…

What did the husband ask his wife to prepare, and how did she respond to the request?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: ask, prepare, respond · To what, where: wife

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1212 «Indian Folklore, Ball-Carrier, part 13: the witch buries the gold and the bridge, and Ball-Carrier goes home» 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 ask	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 husband	det
4	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	nsubj
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 prepare	mark
9	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ask	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 respond	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 respond	cc
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 respond	advmod
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 respond	aux
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 respond	nsubj
15	respond	respond	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ask	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 request	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 request	det
18	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 respond	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past · do-support	the husband	husband's wife		tree rules
2	prepare not said to happen	to-infinitive	the husband not said here			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	respond speech: other	past · do-support	wife		to the request	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to request=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 · ✓ the right answer

A roasted redbreast, which she killed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 redbreast	det
2	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 redbreast	amod
3	redbreast	redbreast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 killed	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 killed	nsubj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 killed	nsubj
7	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 redbreast	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	kill	past	a roasted redbreast						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

A roast bird, which she cooked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bird	compound
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cooked	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cooked	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 cooked	obj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cooked	nsubj
7	cooked	cook	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	cook	past	a roast bird						vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent which=Patient

Option 3

A roasted goose, which she plucked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 goose	det
2	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 goose	amod
3	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plucked	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 plucked	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 plucked	obj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 plucked	nsubj
7	plucked	pluck	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	roast	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	pluck	past	a roasted goose						vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient

Option 4

A boiled hare, which she caught

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hare	det
2	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hare	amod
3	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caught	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 caught	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 caught	obj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 caught	nsubj
7	caught	catch	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	boil	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	catch	past	a boiled hare						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme

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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