Exam question 4 · Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the…

Which option accurately reports the outcome of the ogre's final attempt at a meal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: option, ogre · What happens: report, attempt · To what, where: outcome, meal

This is exam question 4 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 option	det
2	option	option	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reports	nsubj
3	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	4 reports	advmod
4	reports	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 outcome	det
6	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reports	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	12 attempt	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ogre	det
9	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 attempt	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 ogre	case
11	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 attempt	amod
12	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 outcome	nmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 meal	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 meal	det
15	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 attempt	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reports	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	report	present	which option	the outcome of the ogre's final attempt at a meal				accurately property	vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outcome=Patient
2	attempt		the ogre			a meal			nom attempt «act transitive»: poss=agent at=place

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 eats Motikatika's father by mistake after shaving all the village children's heads

The tree, 15 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 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Motikatika	Motikatika	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 father	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Motikatika	case
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 mistake	case
7	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obl
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 shaving	mark
9	shaving	shave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 eats	advcl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 village	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 village	det
12	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shaving	obj
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 heads	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 children	case
15	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shaving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	He	Motikatika's father				by mistake	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient
2	shave	gerund	He not said here	all village					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He eats Motikatika's father by mistake

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 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Motikatika	Motikatika	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 father	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Motikatika	case
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 mistake	case
7	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	He	Motikatika's father				by mistake	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient

Option 3

He is tricked and eats only beans

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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tricked	aux:pass
3	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 eats	cc
5	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tricked	conj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 beans	advmod
7	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	present · passive		He					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	eat	present		beans					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bean=Patient

Option 4

He eats the mother by accident at last

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 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 accident	case
6	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 eats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	He	the mother		last		by accident	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient

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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