Exam question 1 · Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the…

Which of the following most accurately describes the husband's behaviour toward his wife in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, be

This is exam question 1 of lesson 708 «Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the ogre with a crowd of look-alikes» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 behaviour	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	11 behaviour	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 behaviour	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 behaviour	case
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 accurately	advmod
6	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	11 behaviour	advmod
7	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 behaviour	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 husband	det
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 behaviour	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 husband	case
11	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	toward	toward	ADP	_	14 wife	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 behaviour	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 passage	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 passage	det
17	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wife	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 behaviour	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present						of the husband's behaviour; toward husband's wife in the passage; accurately property	tree rules

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

He repeatedly rejects her efforts to fetch water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rejects	nsubj
2	repeatedly	repeatedly	ADV	_	3 rejects	advmod
3	rejects	reject	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 efforts	nmod:poss
5	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rejects	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fetch	mark
7	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rejects	advcl
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reject	present	He	her efforts				repeatedly property	vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Theme
2	fetch	to-infinitive	He not said here	water					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He encourages her to try a different lake each time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 encourages	nsubj
2	encourages	encourage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 encourages	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 try	mark
5	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 encourages	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lake	det
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lake	amod
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 try	obj
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 try	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	encourage	present	He	her = she					vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	her = she not said here	a different lake			time		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Eventuality

Option 3

He rejects her efforts to fetch water, mocking her for each lake she visits and never once thanking her

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rejects	nsubj
2	rejects	reject	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 efforts	nmod:poss
4	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rejects	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fetch	mark
6	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rejects	advcl
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fetch	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mocking	punct
9	mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rejects	parataxis
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mocking	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 lake	case
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 lake	det
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mocking	obl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 visits	nsubj
15	visits	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lake	acl:relcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 thanking	cc
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 once	advmod
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 thanking	advmod
19	thanking	thank	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 mocking	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thanking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reject	present	He	her efforts			vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Theme
2	fetch	to-infinitive	He not said here	water			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	mock	gerund		her = she		for each lake	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for lake=Attribute
4	visit	present	she	each lake not said here			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Co-Agent
5	thank speech: thank	gerund			her = she	once property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

He is grateful but keeps asking for more water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grateful	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grateful	cop
3	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 keeps	cc
5	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grateful	conj
6	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keeps	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	He	grateful property	tree rules
2	keep	present	He not said here		tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	He not said here	for more water	vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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