Exam question 1 · Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, part 1: the b…

Identify the character who, having been refused no hospitality, nevertheless forcibly expelled the badger family from their dwelling.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, character · What happens: identify, have, be, expel · To what, where: character, badger family, dwelling

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1268 «Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, part 1: the bear begs for meat, then drives the badger family out of their home» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 character	det
3	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 refused	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 refused	punct
6	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 refused	reparandum
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 refused	cop
8	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 character	acl:relcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 hospitality	det
10	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 refused	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 expelled	punct
12	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	14 expelled	advmod
13	forcibly	forcibly	ADV	_	14 expelled	advmod
14	expelled	expel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 family	det
16	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 family	compound
17	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 expelled	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 dwelling	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 dwelling	nmod:poss
20	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 expelled	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the character			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent character=Theme
2	have	gerund					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	participle	the character			refuse property	tree rules
4	expel	past		the badger family	their dwelling	forcibly, nevertheless property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent family=Theme from dwelling=Source

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 Brown Badger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Badger	det
2	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Badger	amod
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The Grizzly Bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Bear	det
2	Grizzly	Grizzly	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Bear	compound
3	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The Black Bear who came to the lodge door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Bear	det
2	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Bear	amod
3	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Bear	acl:relcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
8	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 door	compound
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Black Bear			the lodge door			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Black Bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Bear	det
2	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Bear	amod
3	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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