Exam question 4 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 17: Harisarman…

exam: Upon whose instruction did the young man descend into the sacred spring?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: young man · What happens: descend · To what, where: exam

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1833 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 17: Harisarman fools the king with a lucky guess, and a kind young man buys a dog, a cat and a snake» 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	exam	exam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 descend	punct
3	Upon	upon	SCONJ	_	6 did	mark
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	5 instruction	nmod:poss
5	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 descend	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 descend	nsubj
10	descend	descend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 exam	acl:relcl
11	into	into	ADP	_	14 spring	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 spring	det
13	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 spring	amod
14	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 descend	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 exam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	descend	past · do-support	the young man	exam not said here			spring		vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location exam=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

The instruction of the snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 instruction	det
2	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 snake	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snake	det
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 instruction	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	instruct			the snake					nom instruction «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The advice of the old merchant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 advice	det
2	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 merchant	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 merchant	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 merchant	amod
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 advice	nmod

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

Option 3

His father's order

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 order	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 father	case
4	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order		His father						nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

The request of a passing farmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 request	det
2	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 farmer	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
5	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 farmer	amod
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 request	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	request			a passing farmer					nom request «communication 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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