Exam question 4 · Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground

Identify the principal reason for which a bull charges at the matador's cape.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bull · What happens: identify, charge · To what, where: principal reason, cape

This is exam question 4 of lesson 32 «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths 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	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 charges	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bull	det
8	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 charges	nsubj
9	charges	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl
10	at	at	ADP	_	14 cape	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 matador	det
12	matador	matador	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cape	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 matador	case
14	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 charges	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	charge	present	a bull			the matador's cape		for the principal reason	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cape=Trajectory

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 sound of the cape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sound	det
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cape	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cape	det
5	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sound	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The movement of the cape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 movement	det
2	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cape	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cape	det
5	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 movement	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move			the cape					nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The red colour of the cape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 colour	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 colour	amod
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cape	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cape	det
6	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 colour	nmod

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

Option 4

The odour of the cape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 odour	det
2	odour	odour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cape	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cape	det
5	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 odour	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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