Exam question 3 · English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is c…

Upon what object did the bird perch before singing to the cobbler?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, sing · To what, where: bird perch, cobbler

This is exam question 3 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 perch	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 perch	compound
7	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 singing	mark
9	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 did	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 cobbler	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cobbler	det
12	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 singing	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	object	the bird perch					tree rules
2	sing speech: express	gerund	object not said here		the cobbler				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cobbler=Recipient

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

a tree hard by the garden gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 tree	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 gate	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gate	compound
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tree	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a tree hard by

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 by	nsubj
3	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 tree	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	root	root

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

Option 3

a roof close by

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 roof	det
2	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 roof	amod
4	by	by	ADP	_	3 close	fixed

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

Option 4

a wall nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wall	det
2	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	2 wall	advmod

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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