Exam question 2 · Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden…

On what grounds did the four Queens bind the eyes of the gardener's daughter before the birth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grounds, four Queens · What happens: do, bind · To what, where: eyes

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1844 «Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden in the dog and the cow, the Queens' plots» 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Queens	det
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 Queens	nummod
7	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bind	nsubj
8	bind	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eyes	det
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bind	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 daughter	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gardener	det
13	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 daughter	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 gardener	case
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eyes	nmod
16	before	before	ADP	_	18 birth	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 birth	det
18	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bind	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	grounds						tree rules
2	bind	present	the four Queens	the eyes of the gardener's daughter			before the birth		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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

Custom required it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 required	nsubj
2	required	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 required	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	past	Custom	it					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Precondition

Option 2

To protect the baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 protect	mark
2	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	to-infinitive		the baby					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Beneficiary

Option 3

For fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	2 fun	case
2	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

By order

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 order	case
2	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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