Exam question 3 · Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare i…

Upon what ground did the husband decline to disclose the treasure to his spouse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ground · What happens: do, disclose · To what, where: husband decline, treasure, spouse

This is exam question 3 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 decline	det
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 decline	compound
7	decline	decline	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 disclose	mark
9	disclose	disclose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 decline	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 treasure	det
11	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disclose	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 spouse	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 spouse	nmod:poss
14	spouse	spouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disclose	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	ground	the husband decline					tree rules
2	disclose	to-infinitive	ground not said here	the treasure	ground's spouse				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic to spouse=Recipient

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Her inability to keep silence

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 inability	nmod:poss
2	inability	inability	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 keep	mark
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive	Her inability	silence					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme

Option 2

Because she was unable to keep silence about anything she heard from others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 unable	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 unable	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unable	cop
4	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 unable	xcomp
7	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 anything	case
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 keep	obl
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 anything	acl:relcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 others	case
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			unable property	tree rules
2	keep	to-infinitive	she not said here	silence		about anything	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent silence=Theme about anything=Location
3	hear	past	she		others		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from other=Source

Option 3

Her lack of quiet discretion

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 lack	nmod:poss
2	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 discretion	case
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 discretion	amod
5	discretion	discretion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lack	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lack		Her = she	quiet discretion					nom lack «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

Option 4

Her complete inability to keep quiet about anything she was told

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 inability	nmod:poss
2	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 inability	amod
3	inability	inability	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keep	xcomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 anything	case
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 keep	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux:pass
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 anything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive	Her complete inability					about anything; quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent about anything=Location
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		inability					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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