Exam question 2 · Indian Fairy Tales, A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice, p…

To whom did the nadhar apply for the restoration of the ring?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nadhar · What happens: apply

This is exam question 2 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 apply	obl
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 apply	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nadhar	det
5	nadhar	nadhar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 apply	nsubj
6	apply	apply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 restoration	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 restoration	det
9	restoration	restoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 apply	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 ring	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ring	det
12	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 restoration	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 apply	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apply	past · do-support	the nadhar					for the restoration of the ring	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for restoration=Eventuality

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 future Buddha who lived in the pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Buddha	det
2	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Buddha	amod
3	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lived	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pond	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pond	det
8	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the future Buddha			the pond			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The king of the frogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The king of the fishes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The wise old tortoise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tortoise	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tortoise	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tortoise	amod
4	tortoise	tortoise	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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