Exam question 3 · Indian Fairy Tales, Manstin the Rabbit, part 11: Iya the c…

Which circumstance caused Manstin's descent into the brook?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: circumstance, Manstin · What happens: cause, descend · To what, where: descent, brook

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 circumstance	det
2	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	nsubj
3	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 descent	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Manstin	case
6	descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 brook	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brook	det
9	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 caused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past	which circumstance	Manstin's descent		the brook			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition descent=Patient
2	descend		Manstin						nom descent «event intransitive»: 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

A broken bridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bridge	det
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bridge	amod
3	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

A wild bear pulling him down the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bear	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bear	amod
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 bear	acl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pulling	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 pulling	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bank	det
8	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull down	gerund	a wild bear not said here	him = he					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Theme bank=Result

Option 3

The slippery stones along the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stones	det
2	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stones	amod
3	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	along	along	ADP	_	6 bank	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bank	det
6	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stones	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The failure of an old rawhide rope under strain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 failure	det
2	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 rope	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rope	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rope	amod
6	rawhide	rawhide	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rope	compound
7	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 failure	nmod
8	under	under	ADP	_	9 strain	case
9	strain	strain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rope	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail		a old rawhide rope under strain						nom failure «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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