Exam question 4 · Indian Fairy Tales, A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice, p…
What did the first piece of advice on the paper concern?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: first piece, paper concern
This is exam question 4 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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 piece | amod |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 advice | case |
| 7 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 concern | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 concern | det |
| 10 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 concern | compound |
| 11 | concern | concern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the first piece of advice | the paper concern | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=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 · ← Mova's choice
Sleep with your eyes open
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 eyes | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sleep | nmod |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Sleep | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Don't climb trees when it's dark out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 climb | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 climb | advmod |
| 3 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 climb | obj |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 dark | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dark | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dark | cop |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 climb | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 dark | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not climb | imperative · do-support | you not said here | trees | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | it | dark property | tree rules |
Option 3
Watch out for kites on the road at dusk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Watch | compound:prt |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 kites | case |
| 4 | kites | kite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Watch | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watch | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 dusk | case |
| 9 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watch | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch out | imperative | you not said here | the road | dusk | for kites | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for kite=Theme on road=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Sleeping carefully when travelling at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 travelling | csubj |
| 2 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 1 Sleeping | advmod |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 travelling | advmod |
| 4 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 travelling | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | gerund | carefully property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | travel | gerund | Sleeping | night | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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