Exam question 3 · Uncle Remus, That Deceitful Jug, part 33: an old jug makes…

What does the sporting editor declare that Uncle Remus has achieved in the talking match?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sporting editor · What happens: sport, declare, achieve · To what, where: Uncle Remus, talking match

This is exam question 3 of lesson 597 «Uncle Remus, That Deceitful Jug, part 33: an old jug makes the newspaper men tease Uncle Remus» 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	6 declare	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 declare	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 editor	det
4	sporting	sport	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 editor	amod
5	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 declare	nsubj
6	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 achieved	mark
8	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Remus	compound
9	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 achieved	nsubj:pass
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 achieved	aux
11	achieved	achieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 declare	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 match	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 match	det
14	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 match	compound
15	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 achieved	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 declare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sport	gerund				tree rules
2	declare speech: other	present · do-support	the sporting editor			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Attribute
3	achieve	present · perfect · passive		Uncle Remus	the talking match	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

The winning of the money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 winning	det
2	winning	winning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 money	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 money	det
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 winning	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win			the money					nom winning «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 money	det
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The winning of the money, as the sporting editor has settled the whole wager

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 winning	det
2	winning	winning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 settled	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 money	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 money	det
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 winning	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 settled	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 settled	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 editor	det
9	sporting	sport	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 editor	amod
10	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 settled	nsubj:pass
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 settled	aux
12	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wager	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wager	amod
15	wager	wager	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 settled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	sport	gerund		tree rules
2	settle	present · perfect · passive	the winning of the money	tree rules
3	win		the money	nom winning «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The winning of the money from the talking match, after the sporting editor's long argument about the bet

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 winning	det
2	winning	winning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 money	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 money	det
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 winning	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 match	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 match	det
8	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 match	compound
9	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 money	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 argument	punct
11	after	after	ADP	_	17 argument	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 editor	det
13	sporting	sport	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 editor	amod
14	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 argument	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 editor	case
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 argument	amod
17	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 winning	appos
18	about	about	ADP	_	20 bet	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bet	det
20	bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 argument	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sport	gerund				tree rules
2	win			the money from the talking match		nom winning «act transitive»: of=patient
3	argue		the sporting editor		about the bet	nom argument «communication transitive»: poss=agent about=obl

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