Exam question 3 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

What reason did the Frog give for avoiding argument?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reason, Frog · What happens: do, give, avoid · To what, where: argument

This is exam question 3 of lesson 2040 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 2: the Rocket sulks in the mud and boasts to a Frog and a Dragon-fly» 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	reason	reason	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 Frog	det
5	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 avoiding	mark
8	avoiding	avoid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 give	advcl
9	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 avoiding	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	reason		tree rules
2	give	present	the Frog		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	avoid	gerund	the Frog not said here	argument	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent argument=Location

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

It is just a silly habit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 habit	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 habit	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 habit	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 habit	det
5	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 habit	amod
6	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a silly habit					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Arguments are extremely vulgar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arguments	argument	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 vulgar	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 vulgar	cop
3	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	4 vulgar	advmod
4	vulgar	vulgar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Arguments					extremely, vulgar property	tree rules

Option 3

Arguments are awfully dull things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arguments	argument	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 things	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 things	cop
3	awfully	awfully	ADV	_	4 dull	advmod
4	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Arguments	dull things					tree rules

Option 4

They are vulgar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 vulgar	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 vulgar	cop
3	vulgar	vulgar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					vulgar 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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