Exam question 3 · Indian Fairy Tales, A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice, p…

What was the immediate consequence of the tortoise releasing the stick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: immediate consequence · What happens: be, release · To what, where: immediate consequence, stick

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 consequence	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 consequence	det
4	immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 consequence	amod
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 tortoise	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tortoise	det
8	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
9	releasing	release	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 consequence	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stick	det
11	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 releasing	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the immediate consequence				of the tortoise	tree rules
2	release	gerund	the immediate consequence not said here	the stick					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer stick=Source

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

He fell into the courtyard and split in two

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 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 courtyard	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 courtyard	det
5	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 split	cc
7	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fell	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 two	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 split	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	He					into the courtyard result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into courtyard=Result
2	split	infinitive	He not said here			two			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

He sank into the pond and drowned slowly

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 sank	nsubj
2	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 pond	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pond	det
5	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sank	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 drowned	cc
7	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sank	conj
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 drowned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	He			the pond			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	drown	past	He not said here					slowly property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He was caught by a kite and carried off over the mountains to the far south lake

The tree, 17 words

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 caught	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caught	aux:pass
3	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 kite	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kite	det
6	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obl:agent
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 carried	cc
8	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caught	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 carried	compound:prt
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 mountains	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mountains	det
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carried	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	17 lake	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lake	det
15	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lake	amod
16	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lake	compound
17	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · passive	a kite	He					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	carry off	past	a kite not said here			the mountains		to the far south lake	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to lake=Destination

Option 4

He flew away and got lost in the forest

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 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lost	cc
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux:pass
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flew	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	past	He					away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose	past · passive	He not said here			the forest			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: in forest=Eventuality

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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