Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1:…
What did Jack bestow upon the three ladies?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: bestow
This is exam question 4 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 bestow | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bestow | aux |
| 3 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bestow | nsubj |
| 4 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 ladies | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ladies | det |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 ladies | nummod |
| 8 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bestow | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 bestow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bestow | past · do-support | Jack | upon the three ladies | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The castle and all its riches
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 castle | det |
| 2 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 riches | cc |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 riches | det:predet |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 riches | nmod:poss |
| 6 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 castle | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A sack of gold and a horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sack | det |
| 2 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 gold | case |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sack | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 horse | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sack | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Gold coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coins | compound |
| 2 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The giant's wealth and lands
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 giant | case |
| 4 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lands | cc |
| 6 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wealth | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1500-pg503-part87/e4/