Exam question 4 · Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden…
Which animal, entrusted with the infant, was ultimately discovered by a cowherd?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cowherd · What happens: entrust, discover · To what, where: animal
This is exam question 4 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 entrusted | punct |
| 4 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 animal | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 infant | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 infant | det |
| 7 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 entrusted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 animal | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 discovered | aux:pass |
| 10 | ultimately | ultimately | ADV | _ | 11 discovered | advmod |
| 11 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 cowherd | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cowherd | det |
| 14 | cowherd | cowherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 discovered | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 discovered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entrust | participle | which animal not said here | with the infant | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with infant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | discover | past · passive | a cowherd | which animal | ultimately property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
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
Shankar, the King's loyal hunting dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shankar | Shankar | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dog | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 dog | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 King | case |
| 6 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dog | amod |
| 7 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dog | compound |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shankar | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Suri, the King's cow who lives by the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suri | Suri | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cow | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cow | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 King | case |
| 6 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Suri | appos |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lives | nsubj |
| 8 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cow | acl:relcl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 river | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lives | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the King's cow | by the river | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Suri, the King's cow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suri | Suri | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cow | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cow | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 King | case |
| 6 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Suri | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The cow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cow | det |
| 2 | cow | cow | 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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