Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack tricks, slays gia…

To whom did Jack present his account of the battles upon returning to the court?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: present, return, account · To what, where: account, battles

This is exam question 3 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 present	obl
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 present	aux
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 present	nsubj
5	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 account	nmod:poss
7	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 present	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 battles	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 battles	det
10	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 account	nmod
11	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	12 returning	mark
12	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 present	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 court	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 court	det
15	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 returning	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 present	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	present	past · do-support	Jack	Jack's account of the battles		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent account=Theme to whom=Recipient
2	return	gerund	Jack not said here		to the court result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to court=Result
3	account		Jack	the battles		nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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

to the queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	3 queen	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to the King

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	3 King	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

to Arthur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	2 Arthur	case
2	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the King

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	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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