Exam question 3 · Blue Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 1: Jack trad…

State the number of children slain by the giant in the nursery.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, slay · To what, where: number, children

This is exam question 3 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 children	case
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 children	acl
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 giant	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 slain	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 nursery	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nursery	det
12	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 giant	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of children					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	slay	participle		children not said here				giant property	vn murder-42.1 «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

Three little children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 children	nummod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	amod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

A dozen sleeping children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dozen	det
2	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 children	nummod
3	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 children	amod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Several lovely children, all asleep in their beds in the nursery upstairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	amod
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	amod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 asleep	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 asleep	det
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 beds	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 beds	nmod:poss
9	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 asleep	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 nursery	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nursery	det
12	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beds	nmod
13	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	6 asleep	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Several lovely children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	amod
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	amod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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