Exam question 4 · Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kabo copies Pivi, is sw…

Specify the season in which the fishing expedition was undertaken.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: specify, undertake · To what, where: fishing expedition

This is exam question 4 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	Specify	specify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 season	det
3	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Specify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 undertaken	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 expedition	det
7	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 expedition	compound
8	expedition	expedition	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 undertaken	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 undertaken	aux:pass
10	undertaken	undertake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 season	acl:relcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Specify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	specify	imperative	you not said here				season		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	undertake	past · passive		the fishing expedition			in the season		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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

Autumn, when the nights grew cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Autumn	Autumn	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Autumn	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 grew	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nights	det
5	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grew	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Autumn					cold property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Spring, when the light grew longer and the boats were ready

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 grew	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 light	det
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 grew	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ready	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boats	det
10	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ready	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ready	cop
12	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grew	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the light				spring	long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the boats					ready property	tree rules

Option 3

Winter, when the nights grew dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Winter	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 grew	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nights	det
5	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grew	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Winter					dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Spring, when the light grew longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 grew	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 light	det
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 grew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the light				spring	long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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