Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Jack outwits the Giant…

By what means does the Giantess meet her death within the castle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Giantess · What happens: mean, meet, die · To what, where: death · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1537 «Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Jack outwits the Giant and takes back his castle» 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	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 meet	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Giantess	det
6	Giantess	Giantess	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 meet	nsubj
7	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 death	nmod:poss
9	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meet	obj
10	within	within	ADP	_	12 castle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 castle	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meet	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	meet	present · do-support	the Giantess	Giantess's death	within the castle	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent
3	die		Giantess			nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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

She slips on the steps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slips	nsubj
2	slips	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 steps	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 steps	det
5	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 slips	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	present	She					on the steps	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

She drowns in the moat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drowns	nsubj
2	drowns	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 moat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moat	det
5	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drowns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	present	She			the moat			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She falls down the stairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 falls	nsubj
2	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	5 stairs	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stairs	det
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 falls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	present	She	the stairs					vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient stair=Result

Option 4

She is stabbed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stabbed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stabbed	aux:pass
3	stabbed	stab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	present · passive		She					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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