Exam question 4 · Ocean of Story, Gangazara and Harisarman, part 16: Gangaza…

Which reason is given in the text for Harisarman's decision to steal the horse?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Harisarman · What happens: give, steal, decide · To what, where: reason, text, horse

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1832 «Ocean of Story, Gangazara and Harisarman, part 16: Gangazara is revived, the king repents, and Harisarman gets a magic name» 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 reason	det
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux:pass
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 text	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 text	det
7	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 decision	case
9	Harisarman	Harisarman	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 decision	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Harisarman	case
11	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 steal	mark
13	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 given	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 horse	det
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 steal	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		which reason	the text	for Harisarman's decision	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for decision=Asset
2	steal	to-infinitive		the horse			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme
3	decide		Harisarman				nom decision «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 · ✓ the right answer

To acquire respect as a magician

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 acquire	mark
2	acquire	acquire	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 acquire	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 magician	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 magician	det
6	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 acquire	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	acquire	to-infinitive		respect				as a magician	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset respect=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To look like a magic man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 look	mark
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 man	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	compound
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	to-infinitive						like a magic man	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

For money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	2 money	case
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

To win the respect of his village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 win	mark
2	win	win	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 respect	det
4	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 win	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 village	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 village	nmod:poss
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 respect	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	to-infinitive		the respect of his village					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Eventuality
2	respect			his village					nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=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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