Exam question 3 · A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast…

What principal failing did the mariners exhibit at the banquet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: principal failing, mariners · What happens: do, exhibit · To what, where: banquet

This is exam question 3 of lesson 2065 «A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast on golden thrones, then turn into hogs» 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	4 did	obj
2	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 failing	amod
3	failing	failing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mariners	det
6	mariners	mariner	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 exhibit	nsubj
7	exhibit	exhibit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 banquet	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 banquet	det
10	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exhibit	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	principal failing						tree rules
2	exhibit	present	the mariners			the banquet			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «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

Cowardice and anger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cowardice	cowardice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 anger	cc
3	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cowardice	conj

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

Option 2

Their excessive gluttony and foolish boasting at the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 gluttony	nmod:poss
2	excessive	excessive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gluttony	amod
3	gluttony	gluttony	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 foolish	cc
5	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gluttony	conj
6	boasting	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 gluttony	acl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 table	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 table	det
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boasting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boast speech: other	gerund	Their excessive gluttony not said here			the table			vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Excessive drinking and loud, reckless eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Excessive	excessive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 drinking	amod
2	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 eating	cc
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eating	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 loud	punct
6	reckless	reckless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eating	amod
7	eating	eating	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drinking	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Excessive gluttony

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Excessive	excessive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gluttony	amod
2	gluttony	gluttony	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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