Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsm…

What reason did Peter's father give for sending his son into the world?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: reason, father · What happens: do, give, send · To what, where: son, world

This is exam question 4 of lesson 704 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsman: he loses the king's golden ox, dodges the scythes, and wins a bride» 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	3 did	obj
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 father	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Peter	case
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 sending	mark
9	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 give	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sending	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sending	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	reason			tree rules
2	give	present	Peter's father			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	send	gerund	Peter's father not said here	father's son	the world	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme

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

that there was no longer any food in the house and the harvest had failed

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 was	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 food	cop
4	no	no	ADV	_	5 longer	advmod
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 was	advmod
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 food	det
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 food	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 failed	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 harvest	det
13	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 failed	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 failed	aux
15	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 food	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		any food		the house			tree rules
2	fail	past · perfect	the harvest						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

that the granary was empty and the family starving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 empty	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 granary	det
3	granary	granary	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 empty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 empty	cop
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 family	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 family	det
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 empty	conj
9	starving	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 empty	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the granary					empty property	tree rules
2	starve	gerund	the granary not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

that there was no longer any food in the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 was	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 food	cop
4	no	no	ADV	_	5 longer	advmod
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 was	advmod
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 food	det
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 food	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		any food		the house			tree rules

Option 4

that the winter was hard and there was no longer any food in the whole house

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 hard	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 winter	det
3	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 food	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 was	cc
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 food	cop
9	no	no	ADV	_	10 longer	advmod
10	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 was	advmod
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 food	det
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 house	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 house	amod
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 food	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the winter					hard property	tree rules
2	is a	past		any food		the whole house			tree rules

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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