Exam question 2 · Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu, part 1: the prince breaks…

Which means did the wise merchant employ to communicate his strategy to his companions?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, do, communicate · To what, where: wise merchant employ, strategy, companions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1840 «Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu, part 1: the prince breaks the pitchers at the well» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 employ	det
5	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 employ	amod
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 employ	compound
7	employ	employ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 communicate	mark
9	communicate	communicate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 employ	acl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 strategy	nmod:poss
11	strategy	strategy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 communicate	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 companions	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 companions	nmod:poss
14	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 communicate	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past	the wise merchant employ		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality
3	communicate	to-infinitive	his strategy	his companions	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent strategy=Topic to companion=Recipient

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

a secret note

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 note	det
2	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 note	amod
3	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a sign

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sign	det
2	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a coded song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 song	det
2	coded	code	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 song	amod
3	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	code	participle							vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 letter	det
2	letter	letter	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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