Exam question 2 · tales pg540, The Princess and the Pig, part 27: the Prince…

What, according to the Sun's mother, is the principal cause of the Sun's ill temper during daylight hours?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sun · What happens: accord, be, temper · To what, where: mother

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1530 «tales pg540, The Princess and the Pig, part 27: the Princess climbs a ladder of chicken bones and finds her Pig husband» 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	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cause	punct
3	according	accord	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 cause	case
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 mother	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mother	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Sun	case
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 according	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 according	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cause	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cause	det
12	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cause	amod
13	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	19 temper	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Sun	det
16	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 temper	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Sun	case
18	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 temper	amod
19	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cause	nmod
20	during	during	ADP	_	22 hours	case
21	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hours	compound
22	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cause	nmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund		the Sun's mother			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to mother=Goal
2	is	present			hour	accord the principal cause; of the Sun's ill temper	tree rules
3	temper		the Sun				nom temper «feeling transitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

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.

Option 2

Cold nights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 nights	amod
2	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

The sight of wicked acts done by people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sight	det
2	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 acts	case
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 acts	amod
5	acts	act	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sight	nmod
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 acts	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 done	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	participle		wicked acts not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sight			wicked acts					nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The contemplation of the evil deeds committed by mankind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 contemplation	det
2	contemplation	contemplation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 committed	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 evil	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 evil	det
5	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contemplation	nmod
6	deeds	deed	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 committed	aux:pass
7	committed	commit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 mankind	case
9	mankind	mankind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 committed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	commit	present · passive	mankind	the contemplation of the evil					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	contemplate			the evil					nom contemplation «act transitive»: of=patient

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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