Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, Jack and the Magic Table: Jack takes three ma…

Why did the king finally surrender the real table to Jack?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, surrender · To what, where: king, real table, Jack

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1167 «Fairy Tales, Jack and the Magic Table: Jack takes three magic gifts, tricks his way to the top, and wins the king's daughter» 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	6 surrender	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surrender	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	finally	finally	ADV	_	6 surrender	advmod
6	surrender	surrender	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 table	det
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 table	amod
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 surrender	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Jack	case
11	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 table	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 surrender	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the king					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality
2	surrender	present		the real table	Jack			finally property	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent table=Theme to jack=Recipient

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

Jack's hussars marched straight into his hall and took it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hussars	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jack	case
3	hussars	hussar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 marched	nsubj
4	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 hall	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 hall	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hall	nmod:poss
8	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marched	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 marched	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 marched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march	past	Jack's hussars	Jack's hall					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Trajectory
2	take	past	Jack's hussars not said here	hall					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

He was surrounded by ten thousand horsemen and archers and his own chamberlain betrayed him.

The tree, 15 words

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 surrounded	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 surrounded	aux:pass
3	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 horsemen	case
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 thousand	compound
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 horsemen	nummod
7	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 surrounded	obl:agent
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 archers	cc
9	archers	archer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 horsemen	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 betrayed	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 chamberlain	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 chamberlain	amod
13	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 betrayed	nsubj
14	betrayed	betray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 surrounded	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 betrayed	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 surrounded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	surround	past · passive	thousand horsemen and archers	He					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme
2	betray	past	his own chamberlain	him = he					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He was surrounded by ten thousand horsemen and archers.

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 surrounded	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 surrounded	aux:pass
3	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 horsemen	case
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 thousand	compound
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 horsemen	nummod
7	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 surrounded	obl:agent
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 archers	cc
9	archers	archer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 horsemen	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 surrounded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	surround	past · passive	thousand horsemen and archers	He					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Ten thousand men arrived but he had no soldiers left.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 men	nummod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 had	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrived	conj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 soldiers	det
9	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 soldiers	acl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	arrive	past	thousand men		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	he	no soldiers	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient
3	leave	participle		no soldiers not said here	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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