Exam question 2 · Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards th…

What did the bird propose as the terms of its covenant with the boy?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: propose, term, covenant · To what, where: covenant

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1794 «Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards the date tree and catches the bird» 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	5 propose	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 propose	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 propose	nsubj
5	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 terms	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 terms	det
8	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 propose	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 covenant	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 covenant	nmod:poss
11	covenant	covenant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 terms	nmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 boy	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 covenant	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 propose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	propose	past · do-support	the bird		as the terms of bird's covenant with the boy	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	term			bird's covenant with the boy		nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient
3	covenant		bird		with the boy	nom covenant «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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 the boy would bring it water every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 boy	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bring	aux
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bring	obj
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	would	that boy	it			day		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme water=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

That the boy would shield it from the sun and guard its nest each night

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 boy	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shield	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 shield	aux
5	shield	shield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shield	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shield	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 guard	cc
11	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 shield	conj
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 nest	nmod:poss
13	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 guard	obj
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 guard	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shield	would	that boy	it		the sun			tree rules
2	guard	infinitive	that boy not said here	sun's nest			night		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Beneficiary

Option 3

That the boy would feed it daily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 boy	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feed	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 feed	aux
5	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 feed	obj
7	daily	daily	ADV	_	5 feed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	would	that boy	it				daily property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

That the boy would shield it from the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 boy	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shield	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 shield	aux
5	shield	shield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shield	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shield	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shield	would	that boy	it		the sun			tree rules

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