Exam question 1 · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old…

Identify the deity who acceded to the Kangaroo's request, together with the hour at which the request was made.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, deity, Kangaroo · What happens: identify, accede, make, request · To what, where: deity, request

This is exam question 1 of lesson 81 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 deity	det
3	deity	deity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 acceded	nsubj
5	acceded	accede	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 deity	acl:relcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 request	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Kangaroo	det
8	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 request	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Kangaroo	case
10	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 acceded	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hour	punct
12	together	together	ADV	_	15 hour	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 hour	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hour	det
15	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 made	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 request	det
19	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 made	aux:pass
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 hour	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the deity	hour		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent deity=Theme
2	accede	past	the deity			to the Kangaroo's request	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to request=Theme
3	make	past · passive		the request	at the hour		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	request		the Kangaroo				nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

The Little God Nqa, at ten after breakfast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Nqa	det
2	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Nqa	amod
3	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Nqa	compound
4	Nqa	Nqa	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ten	punct
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 ten	case
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 Nqa	appos
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 breakfast	case
9	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ten	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Nquing, at eight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nquing	Nquing	PROPN	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eight	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 eight	case
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Nquing	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Big God Nqong, at ten before dinner-time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Nqong	det
2	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Nqong	amod
3	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Nqong	compound
4	Nqong	Nqong	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ten	punct
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 ten	case
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 Nqong	appos
8	before	before	ADP	_	11 time	case
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 time	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 dinner	punct
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Nqong	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The Middle God Nquing, at six before breakfast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Nquing	det
2	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Nquing	compound
3	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Nquing	compound
4	Nquing	Nquing	PROPN	_	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 six	punct
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 six	case
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 Nquing	appos
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 breakfast	case
9	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 six	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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