Exam question 2 · pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack,…

Which phrase did the peasant employ in order to command the ruffians to return to the sack?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phrase · What happens: do, command, return · To what, where: peasant employ, order, ruffians · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 phrase	det
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 employ	det
5	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 employ	amod
6	employ	employ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 order	case
8	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 command	mark
10	command	command	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 did	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ruffians	det
12	ruffians	ruffian	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 command	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 return	mark
14	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 command	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 sack	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sack	det
17	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 return	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	which phrase	the peasant employ	order		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality
2	command	to-infinitive	which phrase not said here	the ruffians			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent ruffian=Recipient clause=Topic
3	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	which phrase not said here			to the sack result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sack=Result

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

"Go in!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in in a quote	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

"Into the sack, now, go."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
2	Into	into	ADP	_	4 sack	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sack	det
4	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sack	punct
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 go	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 now	punct
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	imperative	you not said here			the sack	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sack=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

"Three into the sack."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sack	punct
2	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sack	nsubj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 sack	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sack	det
5	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sack	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sack	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"Two into the sack."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sack	punct
2	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sack	nummod
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 sack	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sack	det
5	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sack	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sack	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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