Exam question 2 · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remu…

To whom did Mars Jeems entrust the protection of his mother and sister upon his departure?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mars · What happens: entrust, protect, depart · To what, where: protection, mother

This is exam question 2 of lesson 592 «Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remus hides the stock and waits with his axe as the Yankees pass» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Mars	aux
4	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 entrust	nsubj
5	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Mars	flat
6	entrust	entrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whom	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 protection	det
8	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 entrust	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 mother	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 protection	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sister	cc
13	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mother	conj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 departure	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 departure	nmod:poss
16	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 entrust	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 whom	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	entrust	present	Mars	the protection of Mars's mother and sister	upon Mars's departure	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protection=Recipient
2	protect			Mars's mother and sister		nom protection «act transitive»: of=patient
3	depart		Mars			nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

Uncle Remus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Uncle	flat

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

Option 2

Mars Jeems

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mars	flat

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

Option 3

the overseer who stayed behind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 overseer	det
2	overseer	overseer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	behind	behind	ADV	_	4 stayed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	the overseer					behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

the faithful old servant named Remus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servant	det
2	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 servant	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 servant	amod
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 servant	acl
6	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 named	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle		the faithful old servant not said here					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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