Exam question 3 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Giants and the Herd-boy: a poor her…

What is the principal function of the magic loaf within the narrative of this tale?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: principal function · What happens: be

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1695 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Giants and the Herd-boy: a poor herd-boy helps a wounded giant, gets a magic loaf and an invisible belt, and wins his master's daughter» 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	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 function	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 function	amod
5	function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 loaf	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 loaf	det
8	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 loaf	amod
9	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 function	nmod
10	within	within	ADP	_	12 narrative	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 narrative	det
12	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loaf	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 tale	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 tale	det
15	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 narrative	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the principal function of the magic loaf within the narrative of this tale						tree rules

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

It feeds the giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feeds	nsubj
2	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feeds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	It	the giant					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It produces gold pieces each time it is bitten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 produces	nsubj
2	produces	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pieces	compound
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 produces	obj
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 produces	obl:unmarked
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bitten	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bitten	aux:pass
9	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 time	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	produce	present	It	gold pieces			time		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Result
2	bite	present · passive	each time not said here	it					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

It keeps the giants asleep at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giants	det
4	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keeps	obj
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	the giants			night	asleep property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme

Option 4

It turns the boy invisible for one day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obj
5	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It	the boy			day		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme boy=Result

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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