Exam question 3 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar: greedy Manachar…

What did the crow instruct Munachar to do in order to fill the sieve?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: crow · What happens: do, instruct, fill · To what, where: Munachar, sieve

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1997 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar: greedy Manachar eats every raspberry, so Munachar sets out to make a rope and hang him» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crow	det
4	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 instruct	nsubj
5	instruct	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	Munachar	Munachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 instruct	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 instruct	xcomp
9	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 fill	mark
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 in	fixed
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fill	mark
12	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 do	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sieve	det
14	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fill	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	instruct speech: other	present	the crow	Munachar	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent munachar=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do	to-infinitive	the crow not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fill	to-infinitive	the crow not said here	the sieve	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sieve=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

Wet the sieve in the loch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sieve	det
3	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wet	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 loch	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 loch	det
6	loch	loch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wet	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wet	imperative	you not said here	the sieve		the loch			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sieve=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Daub the holes with red clay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Daub	daub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 holes	det
3	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Daub	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 clay	case
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clay	amod
6	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Daub	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	daub	imperative	you not said here	the holes				with red clay	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Destination with clay=Theme

Option 3

Go to the cow and get a whisp of straw to block the holes in the sieve

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 cow	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cow	det
4	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 get	cc
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 whisp	det
8	whisp	whisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 straw	case
10	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 whisp	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 block	mark
12	block	block	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 get	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 holes	det
14	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 block	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 sieve	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sieve	det
17	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 block	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			to the cow	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cow=Initial_Location
2	get	infinitive	you not said here	a whisp of straw			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whisp=Stimulus
3	block	to-infinitive	you not said here	the holes	the sieve		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hole=Patient in sieve=Location

Option 4

Plug the holes with mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plug	plug	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 holes	det
3	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Plug	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 mud	case
5	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Plug	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plug	imperative	you not said here	the holes				with mud	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Destination with mud=Theme

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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