Exam question 1 · Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lambikin is tricked int…

Which animal, in the sequence of encounters described, first confronts Lambikin on his journey to his grandmother's house?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal · What happens: describe, confront, journey · To what, where: encounters, Lambikin, journey

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1821 «Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lambikin is tricked into a drum and eaten, then the Raja's daughters are starved by a cruel stepmother» 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 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 confronts	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sequence	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sequence	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sequence	det
6	sequence	sequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 animal	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 encounters	case
8	encounters	encounter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sequence	nmod
9	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 encounters	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 animal	punct
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 confronts	advmod
12	confronts	confront	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Lambikin	Lambikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 confronts	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 journey	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 journey	nmod:poss
16	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 confronts	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 house	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 grandmother	nmod:poss
19	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 house	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 grandmother	case
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 confronts	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 confronts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	describe	participle		encounters not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	confront	present	which animal	Lambikin	animal's journey	to animal's grandmother's house; first property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lambikin=Theme
3	journey		animal				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 · ← Mova's choice

The Hyena

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hyena	det
2	Hyena	Hyena	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Vulture

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Vulture	det
2	Vulture	vulture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The Tortoise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tortoise	det
2	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hen	Hen	PROPN	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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