Exam question 4 · Indian Folklore, Ball-Carrier, part 13: the witch buries t…

Describe the activity of the young men in the closing passage of this part.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, part · What happens: describe, pass · To what, where: activity

This is exam question 4 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	Describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 activity	det
3	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Describe	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 men	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 men	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 activity	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 passage	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 passage	det
10	closing	closing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 passage	compound
11	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 men	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 part	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 part	det
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 passage	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	imperative	you not said here	the activity of the young men in the closing passage of this part					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent activity=Theme
2	pass		this part						nom passage «act intransitive»: of=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

They fought for the gold there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 gold	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gold	det
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fought	obl
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 fought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	They			there		for the gold	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They hunted on the plain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hunted	nsubj
2	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 plain	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plain	det
5	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past	They			the plain			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on plain=Location

Option 3

They sang songs by the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sang	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	They	songs				by the fire	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They ran races and threw spears on the plain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ran	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 threw	cc
5	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
6	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 threw	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 plain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plain	det
9	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	They	races					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Trajectory
2	throw	past	They not said here	spears		the plain			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spear=Theme on plain=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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