Exam question 4 · Project Gutenberg 641, Stan Bolovan: the dragon flees from…

Which of the following best explains the meaning of the term "lest" as used in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, explain, use, mean · To what, where: meaning, passage, term · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1771 «Project Gutenberg 641, Stan Bolovan: the dragon flees from a hundred children» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 explains	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 explains	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 explains	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 explains	csubj
5	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 following	advmod
6	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meaning	det
8	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 explains	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 term	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 term	det
11	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meaning	nmod
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 lest	punct
13	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	11 term	nmod
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 lest	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 used	mark
16	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 explains	ccomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 passage	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 passage	det
19	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 used	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 explains	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			well property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	explain speech: assert	present	the meaning of the term			tree rules
3	use	participle		the passage		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mean		the term			nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=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

Because

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Instead of; rather than

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Instead	instead	ADV	_	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Instead	punct
4	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	1 Instead	conj
5	than	than	ADP	_	4 rather	fixed

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

Option 3

Although

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Although	although	SCONJ	_	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

For fear that; in case

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	2 fear	case
2	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 ;	nsubj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 fear	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 case	case
6	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fear	nmod

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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