Exam question 3 · Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after…

On what grounds did the husband resolve to uproot the pumpkin tree the following morning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grounds, husband · What happens: do, resolve, uproot, follow · To what, where: pumpkin tree

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1308 «Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after the parents die, a sister's pot and pumpkins bring her luck until her envious brother steals the pot» 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 resolve	obl
3	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 husband	det
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 resolve	nsubj
7	resolve	resolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 uproot	mark
9	uproot	uproot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 resolve	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
11	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tree	compound
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 uproot	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 morning	det
14	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 morning	amod
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 uproot	obl:unmarked
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 resolve	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	past	grounds			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	resolve	infinitive	the husband			tree rules
3	uproot	to-infinitive	the husband not said here	the pumpkin tree	morning	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
4	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Spite at his wife's cooking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	6 cooking	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cooking	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 wife	case
6	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spite	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook		his wife						nom cooking «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Resentment at his wife's mistreatment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Resentment	resentment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	6 mistreatment	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mistreatment	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 wife	case
6	mistreatment	mistreatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Resentment	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mistreat		his wife						nom mistreatment «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Anger at his sister's pride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	6 pride	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sister	nmod:poss
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pride	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 sister	case
6	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Anger	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pride		his sister						nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Hunger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunger	hunger	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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