Exam question 3 · Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, the Broken Pot and the Magic…

What is the principal grievance which the wives harbour against their sister-in-law?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: principal grievance, wives · What happens: be, harbour · To what, where: principal grievance

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1824 «Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, the Broken Pot and the Magic Fiddle: the Prince wins his parrot, Punchkin dies, and a greedy Brahman and a jealous sister-in-law are introduced» 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	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grievance	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grievance	amod
5	grievance	grievance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 harbour	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wives	det
8	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 harbour	nsubj
9	harbour	harbour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grievance	acl:relcl
10	against	against	ADP	_	12 sister	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sister	nmod:poss
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 harbour	obl
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 law	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 law	case
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 in	punct
16	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sister	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the principal grievance						tree rules
2	harbour	present	the wives	the principal grievance				against wives's sister in law	tree rules

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

Her failure to tend the family garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 failure	nmod:poss
2	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tend	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 tend	mark
4	tend	tend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 garden	compound
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tend	to-infinitive	Her failure	the family garden					vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Theme
2	fail		Her = she						nom failure «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Her habit of singing while the family eats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 habit	nmod:poss
2	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eats	nsubj
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 singing	mark
4	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 habit	acl
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 family	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 family	det
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 singing	obj
8	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund	Her habit not said here	the family					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location family=Theme
2	eat	present	Her habit						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

That she is the one who must perform the household duty of cooking for them

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 one	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 one	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 perform	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 perform	aux
8	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 one	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 duty	det
10	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 duty	compound
11	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 perform	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 cooking	case
13	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 duty	nmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 perform	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	the one					tree rules
2	perform	must	the one	the household duty of cooking				for them = they	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent duty=Theme for they=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Her performance of the domestic duty of cooking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 performance	nmod:poss
2	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 duty	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 duty	det
5	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 duty	amod
6	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 performance	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 cooking	case
8	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 duty	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform		Her = she	the domestic duty of cooking					nom performance «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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