Exam question 4 · Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, pa…

Which action did the horse perform upon receiving the child from Suri's hands?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: action, horse · What happens: do, perform, receive · To what, where: child, hands

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1845 «Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, part 29: Katar hides the prince, then the prince becomes a poor servant» 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 action	det
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perform	nsubj
6	perform	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	8 receiving	mark
8	receiving	receive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 perform	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 receiving	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 hands	case
12	Suri	Suri	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 hands	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Suri	case
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 receiving	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	which action			tree rules
2	perform	present	the horse			vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	receive	gerund	the horse not said here	the child	Suri's hands	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent child=Theme from hand=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

He ate him

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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	He	him = he					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

He carried the boy away

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 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 carried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry away	past	He	the boy				away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme

Option 3

He kicked the boy out

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 kicked	nsubj
2	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kicked	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	2 kicked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick out	past	He	the boy					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent boy=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He swallowed the boy

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 swallowed	nsubj
2	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swallowed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	He	the boy					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient

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