Exam question 2 · Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic w…

What is the nature of the fluid which the Tamuls define as sanjivi?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nature, Tamuls · What happens: be, define · To what, where: fluid

This is exam question 2 of lesson 461 «Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic water brings the dead back, and Snakes and cliffs guard the flasks» 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nature	det
4	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 fluid	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fluid	det
7	fluid	fluid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nature	nmod
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 define	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Tamuls	det
10	Tamuls	Tamul	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 define	nsubj
11	define	define	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fluid	acl:relcl
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 sanjivi	case
13	sanjivi	sanjivi	X	Foreign=Yes	11 define	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the nature of the fluid						tree rules
2	define	present	the Tamuls	the fluid					tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

a medicine dissipating a mortal swoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 medicine	det
2	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	dissipating	dissipate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 medicine	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 swoon	det
5	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 swoon	amod
6	swoon	swoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dissipating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissipate	gerund	a medicine not said here	a mortal swoon					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent swoon=Patient

Option 2

a potion curing a deadly faint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 potion	det
2	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	curing	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 potion	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 faint	det
5	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 faint	amod
6	faint	faint	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 curing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	gerund	a potion not said here	a deadly faint					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer faint=Source

Option 3

a drink ending a fatal sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 drink	det
2	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	ending	end	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 drink	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sleep	det
5	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sleep	amod
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ending	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	gerund	a drink not said here	a fatal sleep					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sleep=Eventuality

Option 4

a medicine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 medicine	det
2	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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