Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…

What explicit reason does Miss Meadows give for requiring a flag of truce?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: explicit reason, Miss Meadows · What happens: do, give, require · To what, where: flag

This is exam question 4 of lesson 582 «Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at the candy-pulling and a tug-of-war» 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	DET	PronType=Int	3 reason	det
2	explicit	explicit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reason	compound
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Meadows	compound
6	Meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 does	ccomp
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 requiring	mark
9	requiring	require	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 give	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 flag	det
11	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 requiring	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 truce	case
13	truce	truce	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flag	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present	what explicit reason		tree rules
2	give	present	Miss Meadows		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	require	gerund	Miss Meadows not said here	a flag of truce	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flag=Precondition

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

to keep the peace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peace	det
4	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		the peace					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme

Option 2

because the dogs must not come inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 come	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dogs	det
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	6 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	must	the dogs					inside property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

that the guests shall keep the peace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 keep	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guests	det
3	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 peace	det
7	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	shall	the guests	the peace					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme

Option 4

for safety

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 safety	case
2	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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