Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vin…

Which object did Mr. Vinegar finally receive in exchange for the bagpipes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, receive · To what, where: Vinegar, exchange

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1946 «English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vinegars' gold is traded away piece by piece» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Vinegar	nmod:desc
5	Vinegar	Vinegar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	finally	finally	ADV	_	7 receive	advmod
7	receive	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 exchange	case
9	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 receive	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 bagpipes	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bagpipes	det
12	bagpipes	bagpipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 receive	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	Vinegar Mr.					tree rules
2	receive	present	which object not said here			exchange		for the bagpipes; finally property	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in exchange=Location

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 pair of boots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pair	det
2	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 boots	case
4	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pair	nmod

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

Option 2

gloves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a pair of gloves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pair	det
2	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 gloves	case
4	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pair	nmod

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

Option 4

a warm cloak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cloak	det
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cloak	amod
3	cloak	cloak	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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