Exam question 2 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Heart of a Monkey, part 1: a cleve…

What is the principal reason the sultan requires the monkey's heart?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sultan · What happens: be, require · To what, where: principal reason, heart

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reason	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sultan	det
7	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 requires	nsubj
8	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 monkey	det
10	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heart	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 monkey	case
12	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 requires	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the principal reason					tree rules
2	require	present	the sultan	the monkey's heart					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Precondition

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

To cure his illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 cure	mark
2	cure	cure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 illness	nmod:poss
4	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cure	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	to-infinitive		his illness					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer illness=Source

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To make him feel young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		him = he					tree rules
2	feel	infinitive	him = he not said here					young property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

For his wedding day feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	5 feast	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feast	nmod:poss
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	compound
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feast	compound
5	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

For a feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 feast	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 feast	det
3	feast	feast	NOUN	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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