Exam question 2 · Indian Fairy Tales, Manstin the Rabbit, part 11: Iya the c…

What did Manstin surrender in order to occupy the dwelling of the blind grandfather?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, occupy · To what, where: Manstin surrender, order, dwelling

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1274 «Indian Fairy Tales, Manstin the Rabbit, part 11: Iya the camp-eater is slain, then Manstin trades eyes with a blind grandfather and falls into the brook» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 surrender	compound
4	surrender	surrender	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 order	case
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 occupy	mark
8	occupy	occupy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 did	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dwelling	det
10	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 occupy	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 grandfather	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grandfather	det
13	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grandfather	amod
14	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dwelling	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Manstin surrender		order			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surrender=Eventuality
2	occupy	to-infinitive		the dwelling of the blind grandfather					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus dwelling=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

His long ears and bow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 ears	nmod:poss
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ears	amod
3	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bow	cc
5	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ears	conj

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

Option 2

His bow, his blanket, and the three horses he had raised from foals

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bow	nmod:poss
2	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blanket	punct
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 blanket	nmod:poss
5	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bow	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 raised	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 raised	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horses	det
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 horses	nummod
10	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 raised	nsubj:pass
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 raised	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 raised	aux
13	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bow	acl
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 foals	case
15	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 raised	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past · perfect · passive	foals	the three horses					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3

All of his hunting skill and his sharp arrows for the rest of his life

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 skill	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 skill	nmod:poss
4	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 skill	compound
5	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 All	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 arrows	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arrows	nmod:poss
8	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 arrows	amod
9	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 skill	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 rest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rest	det
12	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 All	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 life	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 life	nmod:poss
15	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rest	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Both of his own eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 eyes	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eyes	amod
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Both	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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