Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1:…

To what county does the narrative of Jack the Giant-Killer principally refer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: county, narrative · What happens: do, refer · To what, where: narrative

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1500 «Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1: Jack traps and slays two giants, frees three ladies, and walks on to a Welsh giant's house» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	county	county	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 narrative	det
6	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Jack	case
8	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 narrative	nmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Killer	det
10	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Killer	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Giant	punct
12	Killer	Killer	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Jack	appos
13	principally	principally	ADV	_	14 refer	advmod
14	refer	refer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 narrative	acl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	county	the narrative of Jack					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent narrative=Eventuality
2	refer	infinitive	the narrative of Jack not said here					principally property	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: 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

Kent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kent	kent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Yorkshire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yorkshire	Yorkshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cornwall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Wales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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