Exam question 4 · Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater, part 10: the stole…
By what designation was the adopted infant formally known?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: designation · What happens: adopt, be, know · To what, where: adopted infant
This is exam question 4 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | designation | designation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 infant | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 infant | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 infant | det |
| 6 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 infant | amod |
| 7 | infant | infant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | formally | formally | ADV | _ | 9 known | advmod |
| 9 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 infant | acl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | designation | the adopted infant | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | the adopted infant not said here | formally property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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 name of the eldest son of the chieftain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 son | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 son | det |
| 5 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 son | amod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 name | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 chieftain | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chieftain | det |
| 9 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | the eldest son of the chieftain | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Chaske
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chaske | Chaske | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Chaske, the wood-child given to the chieftain's daughter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chaske | Chaske | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 child | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 4 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 child | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 wood | punct |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chaske | appos |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 child | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 daughter | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chieftain | det |
| 10 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 chieftain | case |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | the wood child not said here | the chieftain's daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient |
Option 4
Hanska
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanska | Hanska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 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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