Exam question 3 · Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Ja…

By what means did Jack obtain the hen that laid golden eggs from the castle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack, hen · What happens: mean, obtain, lay · To what, where: hen, golden eggs, castle

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1536 «Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Jack is hidden in the Giant's wardrobe and steals the golden-egg hen» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 obtain	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 obtain	aux
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 obtain	nsubj
6	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hen	det
8	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 obtain	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 laid	nsubj
10	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hen	acl:relcl
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eggs	amod
12	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 laid	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 castle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 castle	det
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laid	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 obtain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	obtain	past · do-support	Jack	the hen		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Theme
3	lay	past	the hen	golden eggs	the castle	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent egg=Result from castle=Material

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

by trading his mother's cow for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 trading	mark
2	trading	trade	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cow	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 mother	case
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trading	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 trading	obl

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

Option 2

by creeping out of the wardrobe while the Giant was asleep and snoring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 creeping	mark
2	creeping	creep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 wardrobe	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 wardrobe	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wardrobe	det
6	wardrobe	wardrobe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 creeping	obl
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 asleep	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Giant	det
9	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 asleep	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 asleep	cop
11	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 creeping	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 snoring	cc
13	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 creeping	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	creep out	gerund		the wardrobe		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wardrobe=Theme
2	is	past	the Giant		asleep property	tree rules
3	snore	gerund				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

by stealing it from the Giant's table while he dozed off in his chair

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 stealing	mark
2	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 dozed	advcl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stealing	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 table	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 table	det
6	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 table	amod
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Giant	case
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stealing	obl
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 dozed	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dozed	nsubj
11	dozed	doze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 dozed	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 chair	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 chair	nmod:poss
15	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dozed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund	he not said here	it		the Giant table			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from table=Source
2	doze off	past	he			his chair			vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

by creeping out while the Giant slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 creeping	mark
2	creeping	creep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 slept	advcl
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 creeping	compound:prt
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 Giant	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Giant	det
6	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 creeping	xcomp
7	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep out	gerund						giant property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	past							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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