Exam question 4 · Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare i…

What did the husband affirm concerning the strange events he reported during their journey?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: husband, events · What happens: do, affirm, concern, report, journey · To what, where: strange events

This is exam question 4 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 husband	det
4	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 affirm	nsubj
5	affirm	affirm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 events	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 events	det
8	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 events	amod
9	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 affirm	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 reported	nsubj
11	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 events	acl:relcl
12	during	during	ADP	_	14 journey	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 journey	nmod:poss
14	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reported	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past					tree rules
2	affirm	present	the husband			concern the strange events	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	concern	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	report	past	husband	the strange events not said here	during events's journey		vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent event=Patient
5	journey		events = event				nom journey «act 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

That times had certainly changed, and fish now grew in the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 times	det
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 changed	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	aux
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 changed	advmod
5	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grew	cc
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grew	nsubj
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 grew	advmod
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 trees	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trees	det
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past · perfect · passive		that times				certainly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	grow	past	fish			the trees	now		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That times had certainly changed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 times	det
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 changed	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	aux
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 changed	advmod
5	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past · perfect · passive		that times				certainly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

That all things had altered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 all	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 things	det
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 altered	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 altered	aux
5	altered	alter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	alter	past · perfect · passive		all things					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 4

That times had certainly changed since the days when he was a young man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 times	det
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 changed	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	aux
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 changed	advmod
5	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	since	since	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 days	det
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 changed	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 man	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 man	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 man	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past · perfect · passive		that times			day	certainly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is a	past	he	a young man					tree rules

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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