Exam question 3 · pg3282, The Lion and the Wild Cat, part 47: the lion steal…

What was the principal reason the lion refused to eat the bear?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lion · What happens: be, refuse, not eat · To what, where: principal reason, bear

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1246 «pg3282, The Lion and the Wild Cat, part 47: the lion steals the golden ball, and the old cat sees a copy of it» 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	5 reason	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 refused	nsubj
8	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 refused	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bear	det
12	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eat	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal reason	tree rules
2	refuse	past	the lion	the principal reason not said here	tree rules
3	not eat	to-infinitive	the lion not said here	the bear	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Patient

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

He feared the bear was alive

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 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bear	det
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 alive	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 alive	cop
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feared	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	He						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the bear					alive property	tree rules

Option 2

He thought the bear was poisoned

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bear	det
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poisoned	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 poisoned	aux:pass
6	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	poison	past · passive		the bear					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

He was not hungry

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	4 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hungry	advmod
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	He					hungry property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He doubted that the bear was truly dead

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 doubted	nsubj
2	doubted	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 dead	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bear	det
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dead	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
7	truly	truly	ADV	_	8 dead	advmod
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 doubted	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doubt	past	He						vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the bear					dead, truly property	tree rules

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