Exam question 3 · Household Tales, The Two Brothers, part 69: the lazy siste…

State the reason the father gave for absenting himself from the household at the birth of his last child.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reason · What happens: give, absent · To what, where: State, father, household

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1572 «Household Tales, The Two Brothers, part 69: the lazy sister gets pitch, and two twins set out and part at a crossway» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obl:unmarked
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 father	det
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 absenting	mark
8	absenting	absent	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 gave	advcl
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 absenting	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 household	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 household	det
12	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 absenting	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 birth	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 birth	det
15	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 absenting	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 child	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 child	nmod:poss
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 child	amod
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 birth	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the reason	State					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	absent	gerund	the reason not said here	father		the household		at the birth of father's last child	tree rules

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

He went to the wood to cut trees, not wishing to be near his wife

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 wood	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wood	det
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cut	mark
7	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	advcl
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cut	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wishing	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 wishing	advmod
11	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	16 wife	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 wife	cop
14	near	near	ADP	_	16 wife	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wishing	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	He		the wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
2	cut	to-infinitive	He not said here	trees			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product
3	not wish	gerund	He not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is not said to happen	to-infinitive				near his wife	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He went into the wood to gather firewood, not wishing to see the newborn

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 wood	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wood	det
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 gather	mark
7	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	advcl
8	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gather	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wishing	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 wishing	advmod
11	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wishing	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 newborn	det
15	newborn	newborn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	He		the wood	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location
2	gather	to-infinitive	He not said here	firewood		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firewood=Theme
3	not wish	gerund	He not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	the newborn		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer newborn=Stimulus

Option 3

To gather firewood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 gather	mark
2	gather	gather	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gather	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	to-infinitive		firewood					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firewood=Theme

Option 4

He walked into the woods to chop logs, not wanting to look at the baby

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 woods	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woods	det
5	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walked	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 chop	mark
7	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 walked	advcl
8	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chop	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wanting	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 wanting	advmod
11	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walked	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wanting	xcomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 baby	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 baby	det
16	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk	past	He		into the woods result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result
2	chop	to-infinitive	He not said here	logs		vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Patient
3	not want	gerund	He not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here		at the baby	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at baby=Theme

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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