Exam question 2 · Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61:…

To which son did the deceased father bequeath the fruit of the fig-tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, decease · To what, where: deceased father

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1672 «Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61: the princess begs Ciccu's purse for a copy» 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 son	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 son	det
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 father	det
6	deceased	decease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 father	amod
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	bequeath	bequeath	ADP	_	10 fruit	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fruit	det
10	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 tree	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
13	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 fig	punct
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fruit	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the deceased father				to which son; bequeath the fruit of the fig tree	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Eventuality
2	decease	participle							vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=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 Ciccu

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Ciccu	case
2	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

To Peppe, the eldest son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Peppe	case
2	Peppe	Peppe	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Peppe	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 son	det
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 son	amod
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Peppe	appos

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

Option 3

To Alfin, the middle son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Alfin	case
2	Alfin	Alfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 son	det
5	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 son	amod
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Alfin	appos

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To Ciccu, the youngest son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Ciccu	case
2	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ciccu	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 son	det
5	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 son	amod
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ciccu	appos

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

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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