Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is c…

What did the old woman intend to purchase at the market?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old woman · What happens: intend, purchase · To what, where: market

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1945 «English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is crushed by a millstone after the bird sings the truth» 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	6 intend	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 intend	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 intend	nsubj
6	intend	intend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 purchase	mark
8	purchase	purchase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 intend	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 market	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 market	det
11	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 purchase	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 intend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	intend	past · do-support	the old woman						tree rules
2	purchase not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here			the market			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

a pig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pig	det
2	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a little pig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pig	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pig	amod
3	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a black hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hen	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hen	amod
3	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a fat goose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 goose	det
2	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goose	amod
3	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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