Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, part 1: the fox eats Br…

Which of the following best describes the reason Blacky's mother approved of his choice of dwelling?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mother, choice · What happens: follow, describe, approve, dwell · To what, where: reason

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1886 «Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, part 1: the fox eats Browny and Whitey, then fails at Blacky's brick house» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 describes	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 best	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 best	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 best	case
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 describes	nmod
6	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reason	det
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 describes	obj
9	Blacky	Blacky	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 mother	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Blacky	case
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 approved	nsubj
12	approved	approve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reason	acl:relcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 choice	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 choice	nmod:poss
15	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 approved	obl
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 dwelling	mark
17	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 choice	acl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe	present		the reason	of the best	tree rules
3	approve	past	Blacky's mother	the reason not said here	of Blacky's choice	vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Beneficiary
4	dwell	gerund	Blacky's choice not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

It would be warm in winter, cool in summer, and secure

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	4 warm	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 warm	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 warm	cop
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warm	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cool	punct
8	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 warm	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 summer	case
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cool	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 secure	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 secure	cc
13	secure	secure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 warm	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It	winter	warm property	tree rules
2	be			summer		tree rules
3	be					tree rules

Option 2

It would be warm in winter, cool in summer, and secure, so he could sleep all day

The tree, 17 words

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	4 warm	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 warm	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 warm	cop
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warm	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cool	punct
8	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 warm	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 summer	case
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cool	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 secure	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 secure	cc
13	secure	secure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 warm	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sleep	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 sleep	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sleep	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 sleep	aux
18	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 warm	parataxis
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sleep	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It	winter	warm property	tree rules
2	be			summer		tree rules
3	be					tree rules
4	sleep	could	he	day		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It would be warm in winter, cool in summer, and secure against all wolves and foxes

The tree, 16 words

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	4 warm	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 warm	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 warm	cop
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warm	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cool	punct
8	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 warm	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 summer	case
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cool	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 secure	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 secure	cc
13	secure	secure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 warm	conj
14	against	against	ADP	_	16 wolves	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 wolves	det
16	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 secure	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 foxes	cc
18	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wolves	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It	winter	warm property	tree rules
2	be			summer		tree rules
3	be				against all wolves and foxes	tree rules

Option 4

It would be safe, cheap, and quick to build

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	4 safe	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 safe	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 safe	cop
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cheap	punct
6	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 safe	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 quick	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 quick	cc
9	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 safe	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 build	mark
11	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 quick	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	would	It	safe property	tree rules
2	be				tree rules
3	be				tree rules
4	build	to-infinitive			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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