Exam question 1 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Seven Princesses, part 6: the pome…

Which of the following identifies the substance that sustains the Princesses after the pomelo tree is destroyed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: substance · What happens: follow, identify, sustain, destroy · To what, where: substance, Princesses, pomelo tree

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1822 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Seven Princesses, part 6: the pomelo tree is cut down, the girls are left in the jungle, and Balna is turned into a dog» 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	5 identifies	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 identifies	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 identifies	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 identifies	nsubj
5	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 substance	det
7	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 identifies	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sustains	nsubj
9	sustains	sustain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 substance	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princesses	det
11	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 sustains	obj
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	17 destroyed	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
14	pomelo	pomelo	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	compound
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 destroyed	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 destroyed	aux:pass
17	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sustains	advcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 identifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present		the substance	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent substance=Theme
3	sustain	present	the substance	the Princesses	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
4	destroy	present · passive		the pomelo tree	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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

A nourishing bowl of rice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bowl	det
2	nourishing	nourishing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bowl	amod
3	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 rice	case
5	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bowl	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A nourishing cream-like cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cake	det
2	nourishing	nourishing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cake	amod
3	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 like	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 cream	punct
5	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cake	amod
6	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Pomelo fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pomelo	Pomelo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fruit	compound
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A bitter pomelo juice mixed with the blood of a wild deer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 juice	det
2	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 juice	amod
3	pomelo	pomelo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 juice	compound
4	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 juice	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 blood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 blood	det
8	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mixed	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 deer	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 deer	det
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 deer	amod
12	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blood	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle		a bitter pomelo juice not said here				with the blood of a wild deer	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with blood=Co-Patient

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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