Exam question 1 · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants c…

What was the cause of the household's misfortune, as stated by the wife?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, state · To what, where: cause

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1769 «Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants children, gets a hundred, and meets a dragon» 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	4 cause	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cause	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cause	det
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 misfortune	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 household	det
7	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 misfortune	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 household	case
9	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stated	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 stated	mark
12	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cause	acl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 wife	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wife	det
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stated	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the cause				of the household's misfortune	tree rules
2	state speech: other	participle		the cause not said here				by the wife	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

The loss of the good cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 loss	det
2	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 cow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cow	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cow	amod
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loss	nmod

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

Option 2

Lack of rain for the fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 rain	case
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lack	nmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 fields	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fields	det
6	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lack	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lack			rain				for the fields	nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient for=obl

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The absence of children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 absence	det
2	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 children	case
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 absence	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	absent			children					nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The absence of children, which was a curse upon the whole house and its lands

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 absence	det
2	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 children	case
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 absence	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 curse	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 curse	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 curse	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 curse	det
9	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 absence	conj
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 house	amod
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 curse	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lands	cc
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 lands	nmod:poss
16	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 absence	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the absence of children and a curse and house's lands	a curse				upon the whole house	tree rules
2	absent			children					nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient

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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