Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1:…

Upon what grounds did Blunderbore pursue Jack?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grounds · What happens: pursue · To what, where: Jack

This is exam question 3 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 pursue	obl
3	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 pursue	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pursue	aux
5	Blunderbore	Blunderbore	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pursue	nsubj
6	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pursue	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 pursue	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pursue	past · do-support	grounds	Jack					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent jack=Theme upon what=Trajectory

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 right answer

Vengeance for Cormoran's death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 death	case
3	Cormoran	Cormoran	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 death	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Cormoran	case
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Vengeance	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die		Cormoran						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Vengeance for Cormoran's death and the loss of his cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 death	case
3	Cormoran	Cormoran	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 death	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Cormoran	case
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Vengeance	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 loss	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 loss	det
8	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Vengeance	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 cave	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cave	nmod:poss
11	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loss	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die		Cormoran						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Anger at his brother's wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	6 wife	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brother	nmod:poss
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 brother	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Anger	nmod

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

Option 4

Vengeance for the death of his brother Cormoran, the giant of Cornwall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 death	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 death	det
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Vengeance	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 brother	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brother	nmod:poss
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 death	nmod
8	Cormoran	Cormoran	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 brother	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 giant	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 giant	det
11	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Vengeance	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Cornwall	case
13	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 giant	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die		his brother						nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent

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