Exam question 4 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Bamboo Fiddle: the drowned girl be…

State the outcome of the chief's son's concealment in the pile of firewood.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, son · What happens: state, conceal · To what, where: outcome, pile

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1825 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Bamboo Fiddle: the drowned girl becomes a bamboo fiddle that cooks for a chief's son, then the Cruel Crane tricks the fish» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 outcome	det
3	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	10 concealment	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chief	det
6	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 son	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 chief	case
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 concealment	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 son	case
10	concealment	concealment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 outcome	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 pile	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pile	det
13	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 concealment	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 firewood	case
15	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pile	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the outcome of the chief's son's concealment in the pile of firewood					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent outcome=Topic
2	conceal		the chief's son			the pile of firewood			nom concealment «state transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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

He caught the girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	He	the girl					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme

Option 2

He caught her and she was angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 angry	cc
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 angry	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	cop
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 caught	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	He	her = she					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	is	past	she					angry property	tree rules

Option 3

He lost her and went home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	conj
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	her = she					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
2	go	past	He not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He apprehended the girl and the two of them were united

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 apprehended	nsubj
2	apprehended	apprehend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 apprehended	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 united	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 two	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 united	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 two	nmod
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 united	cop
11	united	united	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 apprehended	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apprehend	past	He	the girl					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus
2	is	past	the two of them					united property	tree rules

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