Exam question 1 · Indian Fairy Tales, Prince Majnun, part 10: the crab trick…

Which character, having deceived the crane, cut through its neck with a view to securing his own preservation?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: character, his · What happens: have, deceive, cut, secure, preserve · To what, where: crane, own preservation

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1826 «Indian Fairy Tales, Prince Majnun, part 10: the crab tricks the crane, then Laili jumps into a 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deceived	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 having	punct
4	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 character	acl
5	deceived	deceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crane	det
7	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deceived	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cut	punct
9	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 deceived	parataxis
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 neck	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 neck	nmod:poss
12	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 view	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 view	det
15	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 neck	nmod
16	to	to	SCONJ	_	17 securing	mark
17	securing	secure	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 view	acl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 preservation	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 preservation	amod
20	preservation	preservation	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 securing	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 deceived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	which character not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	deceive	past	which character	the crane		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crane=Patient
3	cut	participle			through character's neck with a view	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through neck=Patient
4	secure	gerund		his own preservation		vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition preservation=Theme
5	preserve		his = he			nom preservation «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

Crow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The crab

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Jackal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jackal	Jackal	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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