Exam question 3 · Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Jack outwits the Giant…

What reason does the Fairy give for testing Jack by means of the beans?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reason · What happens: do, mean · To what, where: Fairy give

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 reason	det
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 give	det
5	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 give	amod
6	give	give	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 testing	case
8	testing	testing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nmod
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 testing	appos
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 means	case
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	parataxis
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 beans	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 beans	det
14	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 means	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	what reason	the Fairy give				for testing	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent give=Eventuality
2	mean	present						of the beans	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

To discover what sort of lad he is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 discover	mark
2	discover	discover	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 sort	det
4	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 discover	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 lad	case
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 is	nsubj
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sort	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	discover	to-infinitive		what sort of lad	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Topic
2	be	present	he	what sort of lad not said here	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sort=Theme
3	sort			lad	nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To learn what kind of boy Jack is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 learn	mark
2	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 learn	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 boy	case
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 boy	appos
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	to-infinitive							vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		what kind				of boy	tree rules

Option 3

To see what Jack can do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	can	Jack						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 4

To discover what sort of lad he is and how brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 discover	mark
2	discover	discover	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 sort	det
4	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 discover	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 lad	case
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 is	nsubj
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sort	acl:relcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 brave	cc
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 brave	advmod
11	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 discover	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	discover	to-infinitive		what sort of lad	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Topic
2	be	present	he	what sort of lad not said here	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sort=Theme
3	sort			lad	nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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