Exam question 2 · Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brother…

What condition did the old man attach to the continued brightness of the blade?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: attach, continue

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1644 «Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brothers climb the mountain and turn to stone» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attach	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 attach	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attach	nsubj
7	attach	attach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 brightness	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 brightness	det
10	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 brightness	amod
11	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attach	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 blade	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 blade	det
14	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brightness	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 attach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attach	past · do-support	what condition					to the continued brightness of the blade	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to brightness=Co-Patient
2	continue	participle							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

that it never be washed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 washed	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 washed	nsubj:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 washed	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 washed	aux:pass
5	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wash	infinitive · passive		it					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

no rust at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 rust	det
2	rust	rust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 rust	nmod

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

Option 3

to stay sharp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 stay	mark
2	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	to-infinitive						sharp property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

that it remain free of blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 free	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 free	nsubj
3	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 free	cop
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 blood	case
6	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 free	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					of blood; free property	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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