Exam question 2 · Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest…

What undertaking did Julia's solemn request require of Alonzo?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: undertake, do · To what, where: solemn request require

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1216 «Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest and a promise» 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	3 did	obj
2	undertaking	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Julia	Julia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 require	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Julia	case
6	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 require	amod
7	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 require	compound
8	require	require	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Alonzo	case
10	Alonzo	Alonzo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 require	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	undertake	gerund							vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	do	past		Julia's solemn request require of Alonzo					tree rules

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

Obedience to the old priest's wishes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Obedience	obedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	7 wishes	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 priest	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 priest	amod
5	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wishes	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 priest	case
7	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Obedience	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish		the old priest						nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Abstention from bathing in those pools and from walking near the river after sunset each night

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Abstention	abstention	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 bathing	case
3	bathing	bathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Abstention	nmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pools	case
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 pools	det
6	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Abstention	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 walking	cc
8	from	from	SCONJ	_	9 walking	mark
9	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 pools	conj
10	near	near	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walking	obl
13	after	after	ADP	_	14 sunset	case
14	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walking	obl
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walking	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund				the river	night; sunset		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near river=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Abstention from bathing in those pools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Abstention	abstention	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 bathing	case
3	bathing	bathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Abstention	nmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pools	case
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 pools	det
6	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Abstention	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Refusal to visit the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 visit	mark
3	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Refusal	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 village	det
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 visit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	to-infinitive		the village					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Co-Agent

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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