Exam question 4 · Indian Fairy Tales, Prince Majnun, part 10: the crab trick…

Upon what grounds did the jackal decline to remain within the Rohu fish once he had perceived the Rakshas?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fish · What happens: ground, do, remain, perceive · To what, where: jackal decline, Rakshas

This is exam question 4 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	Upon	upon	SCONJ	_	3 grounds	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 grounds	nsubj
3	grounds	ground	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grounds	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 decline	det
6	jackal	jackal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 decline	amod
7	decline	decline	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 remain	mark
9	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 decline	acl
10	within	within	ADP	_	13 fish	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fish	det
12	Rohu	Rohu	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 fish	compound
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 remain	obl
14	once	once	SCONJ	_	17 perceived	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 perceived	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 perceived	aux
17	perceived	perceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 fish	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Rakshas	det
19	Rakshas	Rakshas	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 perceived	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 grounds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ground	present				tree rules
2	do	past		the jackal decline		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decline=Eventuality
3	remain	to-infinitive		the jackal decline not said here	within the Rohu fish	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	perceive	past · perfect	fish	the Rakshas		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rakshas=Stimulus

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

He feared he would be drowned

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 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drowned	nsubj:pass
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 drowned	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 drowned	aux:pass
6	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 feared	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	He						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	drown	would · passive		he					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He was bored

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	3 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					bored property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He feared he would be devoured

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 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 devoured	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 devoured	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 devoured	aux:pass
6	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 feared	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	He						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	devour	would · passive		he					vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

He was afraid of the water

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	3 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					of the water; afraid property	tree rules

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