Exam question 4 · Stories of Many Lands, The Bond of Friendship: three frien…

Which two words of the second tale most clearly describe the protagonist's character?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: two words · What happens: describe, word · To what, where: character, second tale

This is exam question 4 of lesson 831 «Stories of Many Lands, The Bond of Friendship: three friends swear to be brothers and sister for life, and a secret love is confessed» 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	3 words	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 words	nummod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 describe	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 tale	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tale	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 tale	amod
7	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 words	nmod
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 clearly	advmod
9	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	10 describe	advmod
10	describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 protagonist	det
12	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 character	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 protagonist	case
14	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 describe	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	infinitive	which two words of the second tale	the protagonist's character				clearly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent character=Theme
2	word			the second tale					nom word «communication transitive»: of=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

Kind, brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 brave	punct
3	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Kind	conj

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

Option 2

Proud, presuming, and sharp-tongued, always wanting to be first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 presuming	punct
3	presuming	presume	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Proud	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tongued	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tongued	cc
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tongued	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 sharp	punct
8	tongued	tongued	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Proud	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wanting	punct
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 wanting	advmod
11	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 tongued	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	14 first	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 first	cop
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 wanting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	presume	gerund		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	want	gerund	always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	first property	tree rules

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

Proud and presuming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 presuming	cc
3	presuming	presume	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Proud	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	presume	gerund							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Loyal and cheerful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 cheerful	cc
3	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Loyal	conj

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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