Exam question 4 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow…

Identify the spice mixed by the cook with the buttermilk applied to the Crow's body.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, mix, apply · To what, where: spice, buttermilk

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1855 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow is caught and plucked» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spice	det
3	spice	spice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 spice	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 cook	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cook	det
7	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mixed	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 buttermilk	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 buttermilk	det
10	buttermilk	buttermilk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mixed	obl
11	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 buttermilk	acl
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 body	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Crow	det
14	Crow	Crow	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 body	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Crow	case
16	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 applied	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the spice		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent spice=Theme
2	mix	participle		the spice not said here	by the cook; with the buttermilk	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with buttermilk=Co-Patient
3	apply	participle		the buttermilk not said here	to the Crow's body	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Ginger and cumin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ginger	ginger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 cumin	cc
3	cumin	cumin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ginger	conj

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

Option 2

Pepper and salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 salt	cc
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pepper	conj

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

Option 3

Cumin, ginger, black pepper and a pinch of salt mixed in buttermilk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cumin	cumin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ginger	punct
3	ginger	ginger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cumin	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pepper	punct
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pepper	amod
6	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cumin	appos
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pinch	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pinch	det
9	pinch	pinch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pepper	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 salt	case
11	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pinch	nmod
12	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 salt	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 buttermilk	case
14	buttermilk	buttermilk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mixed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle		salt not said here		buttermilk			vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	pinch			salt					nom pinch «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Ginger, cumin, and a little bit of cinnamon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ginger	ginger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cumin	punct
3	cumin	cumin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ginger	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bit	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bit	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bit	amod
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ginger	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 cinnamon	case
10	cinnamon	cinnamon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bit	nmod

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

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