Exam question 3 · Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the o…

At what location does Wali Dâd attempt to end his own life?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: location · What happens: do, end · To what, where: Wali attempt, own life

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1257 «Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the old man tries to drown himself, and two Peris appear» 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 attempt	compound
6	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Wali	flat
7	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 end	mark
9	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 attempt	acl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 life	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 life	amod
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	location	Wali attempt					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Eventuality
2	end	to-infinitive	location not said here	location's own life					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality life=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

At the stream beside tall rocky hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 stream	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stream	det
3	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	7 hills	case
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hills	amod
6	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hills	amod
7	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stream	nmod

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

Option 2

At the river beside steep rocky cliffs, at the edge of the jungle near the palace

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 river	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	7 cliffs	case
5	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cliffs	amod
6	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cliffs	amod
7	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 river	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 edge	punct
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 edge	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 edge	det
11	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 river	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 jungle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 jungle	det
14	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 edge	nmod
15	near	near	ADP	_	17 palace	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 palace	det
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 jungle	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

At the river beside steep rocky cliffs, where he stands and then turns back

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 river	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stands	obl
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	7 cliffs	case
5	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cliffs	amod
6	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cliffs	amod
7	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 river	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stands	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 stands	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stands	nsubj
11	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 turns	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 turns	advmod
14	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stands	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 turns	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	he			the river beside steep rocky cliffs			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at river=Location
2	turn back	present	he not said here				then		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

At the river beside steep rocky cliffs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 river	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	7 cliffs	case
5	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cliffs	amod
6	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cliffs	amod
7	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 river	nmod

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

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