Exam question 1 · pg641, Schippeitaro, what happens: a brave youth frees a m…

What is the principal reason the youth remains in the forest overnight?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: youth · What happens: be, remain · To what, where: principal reason, forest

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1756 «pg641, Schippeitaro, what happens: a brave youth frees a maiden from a cat monster with a borrowed dog» 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 youth	det
7	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remains	nsubj
8	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 forest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remains	obl
12	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	8 remains	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the principal reason					tree rules
2	remain	present	the youth	the principal reason not said here		the forest		overnight property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme reason=Attribute

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

He has been commanded to guard the chapel

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	4 commanded	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 commanded	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 commanded	aux:pass
4	commanded	command	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 guard	mark
6	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 commanded	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chapel	det
8	chapel	chapel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 guard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	command	present · perfect · passive		He					vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	guard	to-infinitive		the chapel					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chapel=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He is unable to locate the exit before nightfall

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	3 unable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 unable	cop
3	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 locate	mark
5	locate	locate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 unable	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 exit	det
7	exit	exit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 locate	obj
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 nightfall	case
9	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 locate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					unable property	tree rules
2	locate	to-infinitive	He not said here	the exit			before nightfall		tree rules

Option 3

He has been struck down by an illness

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	4 struck	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 struck	aux:pass
4	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 struck	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 illness	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 illness	det
8	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 struck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike down	present · perfect · passive	a illness	He					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument

Option 4

He has agreed to meet the overseer there

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	3 agreed	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 agreed	aux
3	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 meet	mark
5	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 agreed	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 overseer	det
7	overseer	overseer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meet	obj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 meet	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present · perfect	He						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	meet not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	the overseer		there			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent overseer=Co-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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