Exam question 3 · Folk Tales, The Cunning Hare, part 18: Alonzo faces the Ya…

Pursuant to the text, what was the chief reason the grandmother withheld objection to the hare's undertaking?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: text, grandmother, hare · What happens: be, withhold, undertake · To what, where: chief reason, objection

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1217 «Folk Tales, The Cunning Hare, part 18: Alonzo faces the Yara and the hare calls up a spell» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	4 text	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 text	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 text	det
4	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reason	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 reason	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 reason	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 reason	det
9	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 reason	amod
10	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 text	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 grandmother	det
12	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 withheld	nsubj
13	withheld	withhold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 reason	acl:relcl
14	objection	objection	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 withheld	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 undertaking	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hare	det
17	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 undertaking	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 hare	case
19	undertaking	undertaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 withheld	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 text	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the text	the chief reason		tree rules
2	withhold	past	the grandmother	objection	to the hare's undertaking	tree rules
3	undertake		the hare			nom undertaking «act transitive»: 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

Her belief that the hare possessed unknown magic, which she had seen him practice in secret

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 belief	nmod:poss
2	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 magic	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hare	det
5	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 magic	nsubj
6	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 magic	amod
7	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 magic	amod
8	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 belief	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seen	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 seen	nsubj:pass
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seen	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 magic	acl:relcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seen	obj
15	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seen	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 secret	case
17	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 practice	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	possess	participle			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	magic		the hare	Her belief not said here	tree rules
3	see	past · perfect · passive		possessed unknown magic	tree rules
4	believe		Her = she		nom belief «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Her belief that the hare possessed unknown magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 belief	nmod:poss
2	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 magic	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hare	det
5	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 magic	nsubj
6	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hare	acl
7	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 magic	amod
8	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 belief	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	possess	participle		the hare not said here	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	magic		the hare	Her belief not said here	tree rules
3	believe		Her = she		nom belief «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

She assumed the river was calm and safe at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 assumed	nsubj
2	assumed	assume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 calm	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 calm	cop
6	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 assumed	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 safe	cc
8	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 calm	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 dawn	case
10	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 assumed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	assume	past	She	dawn		vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the river		calm property	tree rules
3	be		the river not said here			tree rules

Option 4

Her belief that the hare possessed unknown magic and could cross the wide river safely

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 belief	nmod:poss
2	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 magic	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hare	det
5	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 magic	nsubj
6	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 magic	amod
7	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 magic	amod
8	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 belief	acl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cross	cc
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 cross	aux
11	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 belief	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 river	det
13	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 river	amod
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cross	obj
15	safely	safely	ADV	_	11 cross	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	possess	participle				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	magic		the hare	Her belief not said here		tree rules
3	cross	could		the wide river	safely property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient
4	believe		Her = she			nom belief «cognition transitive»: poss=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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