Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar: greedy Manachar…

What was the state of Manachar when Munachar returned with the completed gad?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: state, Munachar · What happens: be, return, complete

This is exam question 4 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 state	det
4	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Manachar	case
6	Manachar	Manachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 state	nmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 returned	advmod
8	Munachar	Munachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 returned	nsubj
9	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 state	acl
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 gad	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gad	det
12	completed	complete	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 gad	amod
13	gad	gad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 returned	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the state of Manachar		tree rules
2	return	past	Munachar	with the completed gad	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	complete	participle			vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

He had burst

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	3 burst	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burst	aux
3	burst	burst	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst	past · perfect	He						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He was lying down, groaning, having burst from all the food he ate

The tree, 13 words

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	3 lying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lying	aux
3	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 lying	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 groaning	punct
6	groaning	groan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lying	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 having	punct
8	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lying	conj
9	burst	burst	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 having	xcomp
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 food	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 food	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 food	det
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burst	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ate	nsubj
15	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 food	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	past · progressive	He			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	groan	gerund	He not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	gerund	He not said here				tree rules
4	burst	participle	He not said here		all food		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	eat	past	he	all food not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He had burst from eating all the raspberries and was lying in the hall

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	3 burst	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burst	aux
3	burst	burst	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 eating	mark
5	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 burst	advcl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 raspberries	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 raspberries	det
8	raspberries	raspberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eating	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lying	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lying	aux
11	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 burst	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hall	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hall	det
14	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	burst	past · perfect	He			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	gerund	He not said here	all raspberries		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raspberry=Patient
3	lie	past · progressive	He not said here		the hall	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location

Option 4

He was dead

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	3 dead	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dead	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					dead property	tree rules

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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