Exam question 1 · South American Tales, The Puma and the Monkey, part 62: th…

In this passage, which animal outwits the puma by refusing to carry out his instructions and upsetting the blood bowl?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal · What happens: outwit, refuse, not carry out, upset, instruct · To what, where: puma, instructions, blood bowl

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1261 «South American Tales, The Puma and the Monkey, part 62: the puma tricks the stag, the stag is framed for theft, the monkey outwits the puma» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 passage	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 passage	det
3	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 outwits	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 passage	punct
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 animal	det
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 outwits	nsubj
7	outwits	outwit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 puma	det
9	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 outwits	obj
10	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 refusing	mark
11	refusing	refuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 outwits	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 carry	mark
13	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 refusing	xcomp
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 carry	compound:prt
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 instructions	nmod:poss
16	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 carry	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 upsetting	cc
18	upsetting	upset	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 refusing	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bowl	det
20	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bowl	compound
21	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 upsetting	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 outwits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	outwit	present	which animal	the puma	in this passage	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot puma=Theme in passage=Attribute
2	refuse	gerund	which animal not said here			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not carry out	to-infinitive	which animal not said here	animal's instructions		vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Eventuality
4	upset	gerund	which animal not said here	the blood bowl		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bowl=Experiencer
5	instruct		animal			nom instruction «communication 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

The stag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stag	det
2	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The monkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The workers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 workers	det
2	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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