Exam question 1 · Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 32: Remus brags, gets…

With what illness does the narrator claim to have been afflicted, and for what period was he confined to bed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: illness · What happens: do, afflict, confine · To what, where: narrator claim, period, bed

This is exam question 1 of lesson 596 «Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 32: Remus brags, gets sick, warns a poor family, and confesses to a murder that may not have happened» 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 illness	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 illness	nsubj
3	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 claim	det
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 claim	compound
7	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	11 afflicted	mark
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 afflicted	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 afflicted	aux:pass
11	afflicted	afflict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 claim	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 what	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 what	cc
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 what	case
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 does	obl
16	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 confined	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 confined	aux:pass
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 confined	nsubj
19	confined	confine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 what	acl:relcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 bed	case
21	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 confined	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	present	illness	the narrator claim		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Eventuality
2	afflict	to-infinitive · perfect · passive	illness not said here	the narrator claim not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	confine	past · passive		period	bed	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to bed=Destination

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 measles, for nearly one month, under his old aunt's care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 measles	det
2	measles	measle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 month	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 month	case
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 one	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 month	nummod
7	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 measles	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 care	punct
9	under	under	ADP	_	14 care	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 aunt	nmod:poss
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 aunt	amod
12	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 care	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 aunt	case
14	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 measles	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care		his old aunt						nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

measles, for nearly a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	measles	measle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 week	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 week	case
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 week	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 measles	nmod

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

Option 3

measles, confined to bed for nearly one month, with a fever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	measles	measle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 confined	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 confined	punct
3	confined	confine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 bed	case
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 confined	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 month	case
7	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	8 one	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 month	nummod
9	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 confined	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fever	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 fever	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fever	det
13	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 confined	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confine	participle · passive		measles		bed	month		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to bed=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

measles, for nearly one month

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	measles	measle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 month	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 month	case
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 month	nummod
6	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 measles	nmod

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

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