Exam question 3 · Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater, part 10: the stole…

Which phenomenon caused the young mother to become apprehensive regarding her infant?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phenomenon · What happens: cause, become, regard · To what, where: young mother

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1273 «Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater, part 10: the stolen boy is found by his parents, and a wood-child is adopted by a chieftain» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 phenomenon	det
2	phenomenon	phenomenon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	nsubj
3	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mother	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 become	mark
8	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 caused	advcl
9	apprehensive	apprehensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 become	xcomp
10	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 infant	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 infant	nmod:poss
12	infant	infant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 apprehensive	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 caused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	past	which phenomenon	the young mother		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition mother=Patient
2	become	to-infinitive	which phenomenon not said here		apprehensive property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	regard	gerund				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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

A bright star

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 star	det
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 star	amod
3	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sounds of many voices emanating from the infant's mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 voices	case
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 voices	amod
4	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sounds	nmod
5	emanating	emanate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 voices	acl
6	from	from	ADP	_	10 mouth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 infant	det
8	infant	infant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mouth	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 infant	case
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 emanating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	emanate	gerund	many voices not said here			the infant's mouth			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from mouth=Source

Option 3

Crying of the babe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 babe	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 babe	det
4	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Crying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund						of the babe	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A strange shadow over the cradle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shadow	det
2	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shadow	amod
3	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 cradle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cradle	det
6	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shadow	nmod

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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