Exam question 2 · Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the w…
What was the principal reason the brownie offered for assisting Jegu?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brownie · What happens: be, offer, assist · To what, where: principal reason, Jegu
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1336 «Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the work and Barbaik agrees to marry Jegu» 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past 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 brownie | det |
| 7 | brownie | brownie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 offered | nsubj |
| 8 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reason | acl:relcl |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 assisting | mark |
| 10 | assisting | assist | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 offered | advcl |
| 11 | Jegu | Jegu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 assisting | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 reason | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the principal reason | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | offer | past | the brownie | the principal reason not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | ||||
| 3 | assist | gerund | the brownie not said here | Jegu | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jegu=Beneficiary |
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
a fair share of the harvest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 share | det |
| 2 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 share | amod |
| 3 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 harvest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 harvest | det |
| 6 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 share | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | the harvest | nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2
a promise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 promise | det |
| 2 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the robin's gift
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 robin | det |
| 2 | robin | robin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gift | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 robin | case |
| 4 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gift | the robin | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
gratitude for the robin's release
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 release | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 robin | det |
| 4 | robin | robin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 release | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 robin | case |
| 6 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 gratitude | nmod |
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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