Exam question 2 · Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare i…

What was the principal cause of the old woman's disgrace among the villagers?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old woman · What happens: be, disgrace · To what, where: principal cause

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 cause	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cause	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cause	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cause	amod
5	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 disgrace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 disgrace	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 woman	case
11	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cause	nmod
12	among	among	ADP	_	14 villagers	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 villagers	det
14	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 disgrace	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal cause				of the old woman's disgrace among the villagers	tree rules
2	disgrace		the old woman					among the villagers	nom disgrace «state transitive»: poss=agent among=obl

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

Her indiscreet repetition of all news she heard to every person in town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 repetition	nmod:poss
2	indiscreet	indiscreet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 repetition	amod
3	repetition	repetition	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 news	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 news	det
6	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 repetition	nmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 person	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 person	det
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 town	case
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Her indiscreet repetition of all news			town		to every person	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	repeat		all news						nom repetition «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

Her habit of telling secrets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 habit	nmod:poss
2	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 telling	mark
4	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 habit	acl
5	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 telling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund	Her habit not said here	secrets					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Her indiscreet repetition of all news

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 repetition	nmod:poss
2	indiscreet	indiscreet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 repetition	amod
3	repetition	repetition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 news	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 news	det
6	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 repetition	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat		all news						nom repetition «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Her loud talk about the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 talk	nmod:poss
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
3	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 village	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talk	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk		Her = she					about the village	nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent about=obl

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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