Exam question 3 · Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brother…

What was the principal instruction given by the giant to those ascending the mountain?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, give, ascend · To what, where: principal instruction, mountain

This is exam question 3 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	PRON	PronType=Int	5 instruction	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 instruction	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 instruction	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 instruction	amod
5	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 instruction	acl
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 giant	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 given	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 those	case
11	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 giant	obl
12	ascending	ascend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 those	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mountain	det
14	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ascending	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 instruction	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the principal instruction		tree rules
2	give	participle	the principal instruction not said here	giant property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	ascend	gerund	the mountain		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mountain=Trajectory

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 · ✓ the right answer

to refrain from looking back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 refrain	mark
2	refrain	refrain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	4 looking	mark
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 refrain	advcl
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 looking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refrain	to-infinitive							vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look back	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

to stay together at all times

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	together	together	ADV	_	2 stay	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 times	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 times	det
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stay	obl

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

Option 3

to walk quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 walk	mark
2	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	to-infinitive						quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

to keep silent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive						silent property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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