Exam question 2 · Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the…

Which statement correctly identifies the reason the ogre fails to eat any of the village children?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: statement, ogre · What happens: identify, fail, not eat · To what, where: reason, any

This is exam question 2 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 identifies	nsubj
3	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	4 identifies	advmod
4	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reason	det
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 identifies	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ogre	det
8	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fails	nsubj
9	fails	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 reason	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 eat	mark
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fails	xcomp
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 eat	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 children	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 children	det
15	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 children	compound
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 any	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 identifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	present	which statement	the reason	correctly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	fail	present	the ogre	the reason not said here		tree rules
3	not eat	to-infinitive	the ogre not said here	any		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient

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

He is too full to eat

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	4 full	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 full	advmod
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 full	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					full property	tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He decides he will eat them later today

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 decides	nsubj
2	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 decides	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	obj
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 eat	advmod
8	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	present	He						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat not said to happen	future	he	them = they			today	late property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

He was tricked by their shaved heads

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 tricked	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tricked	aux:pass
3	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 heads	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heads	nmod:poss
6	shaved	shave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 heads	amod
7	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tricked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past · passive	their shaved heads	He					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	shave	participle							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He cannot identify Motikatika among them

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	4 identify	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 identify	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 identify	advmod
4	identify	identify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Motikatika	Motikatika	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 identify	obj
6	among	among	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 identify	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not identify	can	He	Motikatika				among them = they	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent motikatika=Theme

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