Exam question 3 · Perrault's Tales, The True History of Little Golden Hood,…

What was the principal reason the Hamel parents continued their searches?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hamel parents, parents · What happens: be, continue, search · To what, where: principal reason, searches

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1553 «Perrault's Tales, The True History of Little Golden Hood, part 1: a clever girl, a sly wolf, and a hood that burns» 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	8 parents	det
7	Hamel	Hamel	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 parents	compound
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 continued	nsubj
9	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	parataxis
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 searches	nmod:poss
11	searches	search	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 continued	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal reason	tree rules
2	continue	past	the Hamel parents	parents's searches	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent search=Theme
3	search		parents = parent		nom search «act 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

the wish for their safe return

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wish	det
2	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 return	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 return	nmod:poss
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 return	amod
6	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wish	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return		their = they						nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the hope that the children lived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hope	det
2	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 lived	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hope	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the children	the hope not said here					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hope=Location

Option 3

the hope they were alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hope	det
2	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 alive	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 alive	cop
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hope	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they	the hope not said here				alive property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the hope that the piper would one day return with them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hope	det
2	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 return	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 piper	det
5	piper	piper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 return	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 return	aux
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 return	compound
9	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hope	acl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 return	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	would	the piper	the hope not said here				with them = they	tree rules

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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