Exam question 3 · Olive Fairy Book, The Three Treasures of the Giants, part…

Why did the brothers beat Jack in the forest?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: beat · To what, where: Jack

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1166 «Olive Fairy Book, The Three Treasures of the Giants, part 1: three brothers find a castle of money, and Jack gets the last word» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 beat	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brothers	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 beat	nsubj
5	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 beat	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beat	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 beat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	the brothers	Jack				in the forest	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent jack=Patient in forest=Topic

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

He had carried no food on the long walk to the castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carried	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	aux
3	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 food	det
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 walk	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 walk	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 walk	amod
9	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 castle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 castle	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · perfect	He	no food		the long walk		to the castle	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme to castle=Destination

Option 2

He had stolen the silver cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stolen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stolen	aux
3	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cup	det
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cup	compound
6	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stolen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past · perfect	He	the silver cup					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cup=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He had taken all the gold coins home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taken	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taken	aux
3	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 coins	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coins	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coins	compound
7	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 taken	obj
8	home	home	ADV	_	3 taken	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect	He	all gold coins				home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He had eaten the bread and cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eaten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	aux
3	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bread	det
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eaten	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cheese	cc
7	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bread	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	He	the bread and cheese					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient

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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