Exam question 1 · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2:…

Identify the activity in which Teshumai Tewindrow was engaged upon the arrival of the Stranger-man.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Stranger man · What happens: identify, engage, arrive · To what, where: activity, Teshumai

This is exam question 1 of lesson 85 «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes» 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 activity	det
3	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 engaged	obl
6	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 engaged	nsubj:pass
7	Tewindrow	Tewindrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Teshumai	flat
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 engaged	aux:pass
9	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 activity	acl:relcl
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 arrival	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 arrival	det
12	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 engaged	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 man	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
15	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 man	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Stranger	punct
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 arrival	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the activity			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent activity=Theme
2	engage	past · passive		Teshumai	the activity	upon the arrival of the Stranger man	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in which=Goal
3	arrive		the Stranger man				nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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 right answer

Entertaining other Neolithic ladies at lunch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Entertaining	entertain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ladies	amod
3	Neolithic	neolithic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ladies	amod
4	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Entertaining	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 lunch	case
6	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Entertaining	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	entertain	gerund		other Neolithic ladies		lunch			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lady=Experiencer

Option 2

Entertaining other Neolithic ladies at lunch while the Tribe was busy by the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Entertaining	entertain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 busy	csubj
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ladies	amod
3	Neolithic	neolithic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ladies	amod
4	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Entertaining	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 lunch	case
6	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Entertaining	obl
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 busy	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Tribe	det
9	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 busy	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 busy	cop
11	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 river	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 busy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	entertain	gerund		other Neolithic ladies		lunch			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lady=Experiencer
2	is	past	the Tribe					by the river; busy property	tree rules

Option 3

Entertaining several other Neolithic ladies at a lunch party inside her Cave with the Tribe

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Entertaining	entertain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ladies	amod
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ladies	amod
4	Neolithic	neolithic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ladies	amod
5	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Entertaining	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 party	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 party	det
8	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 party	compound
9	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Entertaining	obl
10	inside	inside	ADP	_	12 Cave	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 Cave	nmod:poss
12	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 party	nmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 Tribe	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Tribe	det
15	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Cave	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	entertain	gerund		several other Neolithic ladies		a lunch party inside her Cave with the Tribe			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lady=Experiencer

Option 4

Sitting in the swamp drawing beavers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	6 beavers	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beavers	det
4	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drawing	compound
5	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beavers	compound
6	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund						in the drawing beavers	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in beaver=Location

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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