Exam question 2 · Indian Fairy Tales, Jack-in-the-Green: the monkey sticks f…

What was the precise consequence of the prolonged drought upon the rivers and springs of the forest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, prolong · To what, where: precise consequence

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1260 «Indian Fairy Tales, Jack-in-the-Green: the monkey sticks fast to a waxen figure» 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 consequence	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 consequence	det
4	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 consequence	amod
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 drought	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 drought	det
8	prolonged	prolong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 drought	amod
9	drought	drought	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 rivers	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rivers	det
12	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 drought	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 springs	cc
14	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rivers	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 forest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 springs	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the precise consequence				of the prolonged drought upon the rivers and springs of the forest	tree rules
2	prolong	participle							vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They dried up completely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dried	nsubj
2	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 dried	compound:prt
4	completely	completely	ADV	_	2 dried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry up	past	They					completely property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

They were almost all gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	cop
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 all	advmod
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod
5	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					all, gone property	tree rules

Option 3

They were drained of every drop of water until the forest floor was baked hard

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drained	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drained	aux:pass
3	drained	drain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 drop	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 drop	det
6	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drained	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drop	nmod
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	14 baked	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 floor	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 floor	compound
12	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 baked	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 baked	aux:pass
14	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 drained	advcl
15	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 baked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drain	past · passive		They				of every drop of water	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme of drop=Source
2	bake	past · passive		the forest floor				hard property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4

They turned into dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 dust	case
4	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	They			dust			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into dust=Trajectory

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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