Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1:…

By what method did Jack dispatch the first giant?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: dispatch · To what, where: first giant

This is exam question 2 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 dispatch	obj
3	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dispatch	aux
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dispatch	nsubj
6	dispatch	dispatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 giant	amod
9	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dispatch	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dispatch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dispatch	past · do-support	Jack	the first giant					tree rules

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

By a rope and a sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 rope	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rope	det
3	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sword	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sword	det
6	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rope	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By a pit and a pickaxe blow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 pit	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pit	det
3	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 blow	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 blow	det
6	pickaxe	pickaxe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blow	compound
7	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pit	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

By a deep pit and then a sharp pickaxe blow to the head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 pit	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pit	det
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pit	amod
4	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blow	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 blow	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 blow	det
8	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 blow	amod
9	pickaxe	pickaxe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blow	compound
10	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pit	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 head	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 head	det
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blow	nmod

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

Option 4

By a horn and a spear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 horn	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 horn	det
3	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 spear	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spear	det
6	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 horn	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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