Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack tricks, slays gia…

Which object did the first giant use to strike the bed during the night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, strike · To what, where: first giant use, bed

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1501 «Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack tricks, slays giants, breaks the spell and wins the duke's daughter» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 use	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 use	amod
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 use	amod
7	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 strike	mark
9	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 use	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bed	det
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 strike	obj
12	during	during	ADP	_	14 night	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 strike	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the first giant use					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Eventuality
2	strike	to-infinitive	which object not said here	the bed			night		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient

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

a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stick	det
2	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a rusty axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 axe	det
2	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 axe	amod
3	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a club

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 club	det
2	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a bludgeon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bludgeon	det
2	bludgeon	bludgeon	NOUN	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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