Exam question 1 · Indian Fairy Tales, A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice, p…

Which bird is described as hovering over the lamb prior to its attempted abduction?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: describe, hover, attempt, abduct · To what, where: bird

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1835 «Indian Fairy Tales, A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice, part 19: the cat wins back the ring, and the Brahman's wife sets out for the king» 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 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	aux:pass
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 hovering	mark
6	hovering	hover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 described	advcl
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 lamb	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lamb	det
9	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hovering	obl
10	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	14 abduction	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 prior	fixed
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 abduction	nmod:poss
13	attempted	attempt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 abduction	amod
14	abduction	abduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hovering	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		which bird		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	hover	gerund			over the lamb; prior bird's attempted abduction	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over lamb=Location
3	attempt	participle				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	abduct		bird			nom abduction «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

The nadhar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The bird that flew over the lamb in the story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bird	acl:relcl
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 lamb	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lamb	det
7	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 story	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the bird			the story		over the lamb	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over lamb=Location

Option 3

The vulture

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The cuckoo bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bird	compound
3	bird	bird	NOUN	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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