Exam question 3 · pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack,…
Which description most accurately characterises the neighbour's motive for requesting the loan of the dog?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: description, motive · What happens: characteris, request, loan · To what, where: motive, loan, dog
This is exam question 3 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 description | det |
| 2 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 characterises | nsubj |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 accurately | advmod |
| 4 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 5 characterises | advmod |
| 5 | characterises | characteris | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 neighbour | det |
| 7 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 motive | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 neighbour | case |
| 9 | motive | motive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 characterises | obj |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 requesting | mark |
| 11 | requesting | request | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 motive | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 loan | det |
| 13 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 requesting | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dog | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dog | det |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 loan | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 characterises | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | characteris | present | which description | the neighbour's motive | accurately property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | request | gerund | the neighbour's motive not said here | the loan of the dog | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent loan=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | loan | the dog | nom loan «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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
Fear of the old woman's anger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 anger | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 anger | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 woman | case |
| 7 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fear | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | the old woman's anger | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 2 | anger | the old woman | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
Jealousy of the couple's fine house and garden fortune
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 couple | det |
| 4 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 couple | case |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jealousy | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fortune | cc |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fortune | compound |
| 10 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jealousy | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Envy of the couple's good fortune
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fortune | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 couple | det |
| 4 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 couple | case |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fortune | amod |
| 7 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Envy | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | envy | the couple's good fortune | nom envy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
Envy of the couple's good fortune and wealth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fortune | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 couple | det |
| 4 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 couple | case |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fortune | amod |
| 7 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Envy | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wealth | cc |
| 9 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fortune | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | envy | the couple's good fortune and wealth | nom envy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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