Exam question 2 · A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows…

In what condition were the followers when the cow lay down?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cow · What happens: be, lie down · To what, where: followers, condition

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2059 «A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows a brindled cow until it lies down and he chooses a home» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 condition	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 condition	det
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 followers	obl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 followers	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 followers	det
6	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 lay	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lay	nsubj
10	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 followers	acl:relcl
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 lay	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 followers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the followers		what condition			tree rules
2	lie down	past	the cow					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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

soaked, exhausted, hungry and sore after the long march

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 exhausted	punct
3	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 soaked	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hungry	punct
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 soaked	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sore	cc
7	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hungry	conj
8	after	after	ADP	_	11 march	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 march	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 march	amod
11	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 soaked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak	participle					after the long march		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	exhaust	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

happy, rested and well fed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rested	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 happy	punct
3	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fed	cc
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 fed	advmod
6	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 rested	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	participle							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feed	participle						well property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 3

bedraggled, weary, hungry and far from any home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bedraggled	bedraggled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 weary	punct
3	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 bedraggled	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hungry	punct
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 bedraggled	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 far	cc
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 bedraggled	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 home	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 home	det
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 far	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

bedraggled, weary and hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bedraggled	bedraggled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 weary	punct
3	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 bedraggled	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hungry	cc
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 bedraggled	conj

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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