Exam question 2 · Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the broth…

What was the principal reason for the exchange of garments between the two brothers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, exchange · To what, where: principal reason, garments

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1576 «Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the brother fetches his sister, and they set sail with the stepmother» 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	for	for	ADP	_	8 exchange	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 exchange	det
8	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reason	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 garments	case
10	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 exchange	nmod
11	between	between	ADP	_	14 brothers	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 brothers	det
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 brothers	nummod
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 garments	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal reason				for the exchange of garments between the two brothers	tree rules
2	exchange			garments between the two brothers					nom exchange «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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

To fool the King's men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fool	mark
2	fool	fool	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 men	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 King	case
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fool	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	to-infinitive		the King's men					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient

Option 2

To trick them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 trick	mark
2	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 trick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	to-infinitive		them = they					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To deceive the princesses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 deceive	mark
2	deceive	deceive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princesses	det
4	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 deceive	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deceive	to-infinitive		the princesses					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

Option 4

To hide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive							vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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