Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood…

What did the Fowler's wife state concerning the disposal of the bird's head and heart?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: wife state · What happens: do, concern · To what, where: wife state, disposal

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1877 «Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood, saved by the Fairy» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fowler	det
4	Fowler	Fowler	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 state	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Fowler	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 state	compound
7	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
8	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 state	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 disposal	det
10	disposal	disposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 concerning	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 head	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bird	det
13	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 head	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 bird	case
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 disposal	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heart	cc
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 head	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Fowler's wife state					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Eventuality
2	concern	gerund	the Fowler's wife state not said here	the disposal of the bird's head and heart					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus disposal=Experiencer

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

to her children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	3 children	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 children	nmod:poss
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

she ate them

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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	she	them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

she fed them to her children

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 fed	nsubj
2	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fed	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 children	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 children	nmod:poss
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	she	them = they	her children				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to child=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

she gave them to her children

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 children	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 children	nmod:poss
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	she		them = they			to her children	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to child=Recipient

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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