Exam question 1 · Blue Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 1: Jack trad…

Identify the commodity exchanged by the protagonist at market.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, exchange · To what, where: commodity, market

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1535 «Blue Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 1: Jack trades the cow for magic beans» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 commodity	det
3	commodity	commodity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	exchanged	exchange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 commodity	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 protagonist	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 protagonist	det
7	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 exchanged	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 market	case
9	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 exchanged	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the commodity					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent commodity=Theme
2	exchange	participle		the commodity not said here		market		by the protagonist	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Jack's mother's cow traded for some scarlet-runner beans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mother	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jack	case
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cow	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 mother	case
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 traded	nsubj
6	traded	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	12 beans	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 beans	det
9	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 runner	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 scarlet	punct
11	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beans	compound
12	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 traded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trade	past	Jack's mother's cow					for some runner beans	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent for bean=Co-Theme

Option 2

A goat for seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 goat	det
2	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 seeds	case
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 goat	nmod

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

Option 3

The family's prize milking cow for a bag of magic beans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cow	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 family	case
4	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cow	compound
5	milking	milking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cow	compound
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 bag	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bag	det
9	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cow	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 beans	case
11	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beans	compound
12	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bag	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The cow for beans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cow	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 beans	case
4	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cow	nmod

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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