Exam question 1 · Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kabo copies Pivi, is sw…

Identify the outcome of Kabo's attempt to climb the cocoa-nut tree.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Kabo · What happens: identify, climb, attempt · To what, where: outcome, nut tree

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1231 «Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kabo copies Pivi, is swallowed by a shell-fish, and is punished» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 outcome	det
3	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 attempt	case
5	Kabo	Kabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 attempt	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Kabo	case
7	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 outcome	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 climb	mark
9	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 attempt	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
11	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nut	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 cocoa	punct
13	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	compound
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 climb	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the outcome of Kabo's attempt	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent outcome=Theme
2	climb	to-infinitive	you not said here	the nut tree	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
3	attempt		Kabo		nom attempt «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

He slipped badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slipped	nsubj
2	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 slipped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	He					badly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He failed by using only his knees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 failed	nsubj
2	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 using	mark
4	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 failed	advcl
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 knees	advmod
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 knees	nmod:poss
7	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 using	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	past	He						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	use	gerund	He not said here	his knees					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knee=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He failed by using both hands and feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 failed	nsubj
2	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 using	mark
4	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 failed	advcl
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 hands	det
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 using	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 feet	cc
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hands	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	past	He						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	use	gerund	He not said here	both hands and feet					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 4

He failed after trying both his hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 failed	nsubj
2	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	4 trying	mark
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 failed	advcl
5	both	both	CCONJ	_	7 hands	cc:preconj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	past	He						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	try	gerund	He not said here	his hands					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Eventuality

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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