Exam question 4 · Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells ho…

What reason did Master Peter Bloch give his wife for making his will?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter Bloch · What happens: give, make · To what, where: wife

This is exam question 4 of lesson 686 «Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells how to win the root, and poor Peter makes a plan» 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	7 give	obl
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
4	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Peter	compound
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Bloch	compound
6	Bloch	Bloch	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 making	mark
11	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 give	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 will	nmod:poss
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 making	aux
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	Peter Bloch	Bloch's wife					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
2	make	future	Peter Bloch not said here						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

Because he felt very ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 felt	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 ill	advmod
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	he					ill property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

To be safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 safe	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						safe property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That his house might be in order

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 house	det
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 house	nmod:poss
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 order	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 order	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 order	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 order	case
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	his house			order			tree rules

Option 4

That his debts might be paid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 his	nsubj
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 debts	nmod:poss
3	debts	debt	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 paid	nsubj:pass
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 paid	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 paid	aux:pass
6	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	might · passive		his debts					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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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