Exam question 1 · Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare i…

In what manner did the sultan respond upon perusing his daughter's letter?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sultan respond, daughter · What happens: do, peruse, letter · To what, where: sultan respond, manner, letter

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1775 «Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water, part 2: a pot of gold, a fake fish and hare, and a wife who spends it all» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	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 respond	det
6	sultan	sultan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 respond	amod
7	respond	respond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	9 perusing	mark
9	perusing	peruse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 respond	acl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 daughter	nmod:poss
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 letter	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 daughter	case
13	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 perusing	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past		the sultan respond	what manner	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respond=Eventuality
2	peruse	gerund	the sultan respond not said here	his daughter's letter		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
3	letter		his daughter			nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=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

He bowed his head and wept bitterly before the whole court in silence

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	2 bowed	nsubj
2	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bowed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wept	cc
6	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bowed	conj
7	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	6 wept	advmod
8	before	before	ADP	_	11 court	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 court	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 court	amod
11	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wept	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 silence	case
13	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 court	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	past	He	his head					vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
2	weep	past	He not said here				before the whole court in silence	bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He bowed his head and wept

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	2 bowed	nsubj
2	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bowed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wept	cc
6	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bowed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	past	He	his head					vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
2	weep	past	He not said here						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He raised his hand and cried

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	2 raised	nsubj
2	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 raised	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cried	cc
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 raised	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past	He	his hand					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	He not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He sat down and sighed

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	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sighed	cc
5	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	He						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sigh	past	He not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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