Exam question 1 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Heart of a Monkey, part 1: a cleve…
By what means did news of the jogi's death reach the princess?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jogi · What happens: mean, do, reach, die · To what, where: news, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1283 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Heart of a Monkey, part 1: a clever monkey tricks a shark into carrying him back to his tree» 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 means | mark |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | ccomp |
| 5 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 death | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 jogi | det |
| 8 | jogi | jogi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 death | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 jogi | case |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 news | nmod |
| 11 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 did | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reach | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | news of the jogi's death | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | reach | infinitive | the princess | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | |||||
| 4 | die | the jogi | nom death «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 · ✓ the right answer
Through rumour spreading in the town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 3 spreading | case |
| 2 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spreading | compound |
| 3 | spreading | spreading | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spreading | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Through rumour spreading in the town and a messenger sent from the palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 3 spreading | case |
| 2 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spreading | compound |
| 3 | spreading | spreading | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spreading | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 messenger | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 messenger | det |
| 9 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spreading | conj |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 messenger | acl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | participle | a messenger not said here | the palace | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from palace=Initial_Location |
Option 3
Through gossip from the palace guards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 2 gossip | case |
| 2 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 guards | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 guards | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 guards | compound |
| 6 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gossip | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
By word of mouth in the market
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 word | case |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 mouth | case |
| 4 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 word | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 market | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 market | det |
| 7 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 word | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | word | mouth | the market | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient in=place |
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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