Exam question 4 · Tales of the Punjab, Why the Fish Laughed, part 1: the que…
What response did the farmer offer when questioned about the corn?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: response · What happens: do offer, question · To what, where: farmer
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1849 «Tales of the Punjab, Why the Fish Laughed, part 1: the queen's fish laughs and the vizier's son sets off» 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 | 3 did | obj |
| 2 | response | response | 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 farmer | det |
| 5 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | offer | offer | ADP | _ | 3 did | compound:prt |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 questioned | advmod |
| 8 | questioned | question | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | advcl |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 corn | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 corn | det |
| 11 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 questioned | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do offer | past | response | the farmer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | question speech: other | participle | response not said here | about the corn | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent about corn=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
"Not sure, sorry"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 sure | advmod |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sure | conj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
"I don't know"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
"Maybe"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Maybe | punct |
| 2 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Maybe | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
"No idea at all"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 idea | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 idea | det |
| 3 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 idea | nmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 idea | punct |
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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