Exam question 4 · Household Tales, The Travels of Tom Thumb, part 27: the Fr…
Where did Tom Thumb's travels finally deposit him at the close of this passage?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, deposit · To what, where: Thumb, close
This is exam question 4 of lesson 124 «Household Tales, The Travels of Tom Thumb, part 27: the Frog becomes a Prince, Henry's bands break, and Tom Thumb ends up in a cow» 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 deposit | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Thumb | compound |
| 4 | Thumb | Thumb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 travels | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Thumb | case |
| 6 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 7 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 8 deposit | advmod |
| 8 | deposit | deposit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 deposit | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 close | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 close | det |
| 12 | close | close | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deposit | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 passage | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 passage | det |
| 15 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 close | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 deposit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | where property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | deposit | present | Thumb | the close of this passage | finally property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme at close=Destination |
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
In a tailor's shop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 shop | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tailor | det |
| 3 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shop | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 tailor | case |
| 5 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Within the cellar of a grand old house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Within | within | ADP | _ | 3 cellar | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cellar | det |
| 3 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 6 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cellar | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Within the stomach of a large black cow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Within | within | ADP | _ | 3 stomach | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stomach | det |
| 3 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cow | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cow | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cow | amod |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cow | amod |
| 8 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stomach | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Inside the belly of a sleepy old horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inside | inside | ADP | _ | 3 belly | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 belly | det |
| 3 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 horse | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 6 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 horse | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 horse | amod |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belly | 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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