Exam question 4 · Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a hunter's dog, a curse…

Which of the following options correctly identifies the moral conveyed by the Satan episode?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, identify, convey · To what, where: moral

This is exam question 4 of lesson 488 «Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a hunter's dog, a cursed son, and a soldier who never washes end in devils outwitted by devils.» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 identifies	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 options	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 options	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 options	amod
5	options	option	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Which	nmod
6	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	7 identifies	advmod
7	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moral	det
9	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 identifies	obj
10	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 moral	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 episode	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 episode	det
13	Satan	Satan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 episode	compound
14	episode	episode	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conveyed	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 identifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present	the moral	correctly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent moral=Theme
3	convey	participle	the moral not said here	by the Satan episode	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

Devils cannot enter a church.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 enter	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 enter	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 enter	advmod
4	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 church	det
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enter	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 enter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not enter	can	Devils	a church					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme church=Destination

Option 2

Hasty words should never be spoken.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hasty	hasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 words	amod
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spoken	nsubj:pass
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 spoken	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 spoken	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 spoken	aux:pass
6	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spoken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	should · passive		Hasty words					tree rules

Option 3

Wealth is the root of all evil.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 root	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 root	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 root	det
4	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 evil	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 evil	det
7	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 root	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 root	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Wealth	the root				of all evil	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Married folks must not be sundered.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Married	married	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 folks	amod
2	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sundered	nsubj:pass
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sundered	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 sundered	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sundered	aux:pass
6	sundered	sunder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sundered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sunder	must · passive		Married folks					vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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