Exam question 4 · The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane m…

Indicate the reason Jane ceased weeping upon George's advice.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Jane · What happens: indicate, cease, weep · To what, where: reason

This is exam question 4 of lesson 645 «The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane meet a frozen dragon and are tied up by sealskin dwarfs.» 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	Indicate	indicate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Indicate	obj
4	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ceased	nsubj
5	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reason	acl:relcl
6	weeping	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 ceased	xcomp
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 advice	case
8	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 advice	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 George	case
10	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weeping	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Indicate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	indicate	imperative	you not said here	the reason		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot reason=Topic
2	cease	past	Jane	the reason not said here		tree rules
3	weep	gerund	Jane not said here		upon George's advice	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: 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

she wanted to pretend to be a wolf and howl at the dragon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 pretend	mark
4	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	8 wolf	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 wolf	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wolf	det
8	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pretend	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 howl	cc
10	howl	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 dragon	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dragon	det
13	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 howl	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	she			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	pretend not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here			tree rules
3	is a	to-infinitive	she not said here	a wolf		tree rules
4	howl	present	she not said here		at the dragon	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at dragon=Stimulus

Option 2

she realised that crying would make her get chilblains on her hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 realised	nsubj
2	realised	realise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 make	mark
4	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 make	csubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 realised	ccomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	xcomp
9	chilblains	chilblain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 get	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 hands	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	realise	past	she			tree rules
2	cry speech: express	gerund				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	would	crying	her = she		tree rules
4	get	infinitive	her = she not said here	chilblains	her hands	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent chilblain=Theme on hand=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

George told her to be quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	6 quiet	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 quiet	cop
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	George		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	George not said here					quiet property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she began to pretend to howl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 pretend	mark
4	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 howl	mark
6	howl	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pretend	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	begin	past	she	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	pretend	to-infinitive	she not said here	tree rules
3	howl	to-infinitive	she not said here	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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