Exam question 3 · Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plag…

Which of the following accurately describes the principal occupation of Mother Soren?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, describe, occupy · To what, where: Mother

This is exam question 3 of lesson 950 «Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plague to Falster» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 occupation	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	9 occupation	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 occupation	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 occupation	csubj
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 describes	advmod
6	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 occupation	det
8	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 occupation	amod
9	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Mother	case
11	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 occupation	nmod
12	Soren	Soren	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Mother	flat
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 occupation	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe	present		accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	occupy		Mother		nom occupation «act 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 · ← Mova's choice

Begging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	gerund							vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Operating the ferry-boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Operating	operate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boat	det
3	ferry	ferry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boat	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 ferry	punct
5	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Operating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	operate	gerund		the ferry boat					vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Theme boat=Attribute

Option 3

Operating the ferry-boat across the strait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Operating	operate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boat	det
3	ferry	ferry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boat	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 ferry	punct
5	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Operating	obj
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 strait	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 strait	det
8	strait	strait	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Operating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	operate	gerund		the ferry boat		the strait			vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Theme boat=Attribute

Option 4

Selling bread at market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Selling	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 market	case
4	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Selling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	gerund		bread		market			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent bread=Theme at market=Asset

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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