Exam question 1 · Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the far…

Which of the following did Toueno-Boueno use to persuade the farmers to spare his life?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Toueno · What happens: follow, use, persuade, spare · To what, where: farmers, life

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1295 «Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the farmers and sends them to their deaths in the river, and a new tale, The Brown Bear of Norway, begins» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 following	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 following	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 use	aux
6	Toueno	Toueno	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 use	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Boueno	punct
8	Boueno	Boueno	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Toueno	flat
9	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 persuade	mark
11	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 use	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 farmers	det
13	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 persuade	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 spare	mark
15	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 persuade	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 life	nmod:poss
17	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spare	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 following	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use	past · do-support	Toueno		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	persuade	to-infinitive	Toueno not said here	the farmers	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Patient
4	spare	to-infinitive	Toueno not said here	Toueno's life	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset

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 golden whistle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 whistle	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 whistle	amod
3	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A magic sack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sack	det
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sack	amod
3	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A whistle which he claimed could restore the dead to life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 whistle	det
2	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 restore	nsubj
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 claimed	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 claimed	nsubj
5	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whistle	acl:relcl
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 restore	aux
7	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dead	det
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 restore	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 life	case
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 restore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	past	a whistle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	restore	could	a whistle	the dead	life				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent dead=Theme to life=Recipient

Option 4

A flute which he claimed could raise the dead from the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 flute	det
2	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 raise	nsubj
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 claimed	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 claimed	nsubj
5	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flute	acl:relcl
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 raise	aux
7	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dead	det
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 raise	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 raise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	past	a flute						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	raise	could	a flute	the dead		the river			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dead=Theme from river=Destination

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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