Exam question 4 · Indian Fairy Tales, Jack-in-the-Green: the monkey sticks f…

What was the name by which the animals of the forest came to know the strange creature in the honey-covered disguise?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: name, animals · What happens: be, come, know, cover · To what, where: strange creature, covered disguise

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1260 «Indian Fairy Tales, Jack-in-the-Green: the monkey sticks fast to a waxen figure» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 name	det
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 came	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animals	det
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 forest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 animals	nmod
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 name	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 know	mark
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 came	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 creature	det
16	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 creature	amod
17	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 know	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	23 disguise	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 disguise	det
20	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 covered	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 honey	punct
22	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 disguise	amod
23	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 creature	nmod
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the name				tree rules
2	come	past	the animals of the forest			by the name	tree rules
3	know	to-infinitive	the animals of the forest not said here	the strange creature	the covered disguise		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus
4	cover	participle					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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 Green Man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Man	det
2	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Man	amod
3	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Green Spirit Thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Thing	amod
2	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Thing	compound
3	Thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The Mossy Creature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Creature	det
2	Mossy	mossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Creature	amod
3	Creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Jack-in-the-Green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Green	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 Green	case
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 in	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Green	det
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 the	punct
7	Green	Green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Jack	conj

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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