Exam question 1 · pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack,…
Which of the following objects did the dog's dream instruct the old man to fashion from the felled fig-tree?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: follow, instruct, fashion, fell, dream · To what, where: objects, old man, felled fig tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1777 «pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack, then a dog who digs up gold and is killed by a greedy neighbour» 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 | 11 instruct | obj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 dream | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dream | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 dream | csubj |
| 5 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 following | obj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dream | aux |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dog | det |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dream | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 dog | case |
| 10 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 instruct | obl |
| 11 | instruct | instruct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 instruct | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fashion | mark |
| 16 | fashion | fashion | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 man | acl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 19 | felled | fell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 tree | amod |
| 20 | fig | fig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 fig | punct |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fashion | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 instruct | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | objects | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Theme | |||||
| 2 | instruct speech: other | present | the old man | of the dog's dream | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fashion | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | the felled fig tree | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent from tree=Material | ||||
| 4 | fell | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | dream | the dog | nom dream «cognition 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 · ← Mova's choice
A pestle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pestle | det |
| 2 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A wooden mortar and matching pestle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mortar | det |
| 2 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mortar | amod |
| 3 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pestle | cc |
| 5 | matching | matching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pestle | compound |
| 6 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mortar | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A large stone mortar for grain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mortar | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mortar | amod |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mortar | compound |
| 4 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 grain | case |
| 6 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mortar | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A mortar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mortar | det |
| 2 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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