Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vin…

Upon what did the thieves divide their booty beneath the forest tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thieves · What happens: divide · To what, where: booty

This is exam question 2 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 divide	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thieves	det
5	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 divide	nsubj
6	divide	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 booty	nmod:poss
8	booty	booty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 divide	obj
9	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	12 tree	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tree	compound
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 divide	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	divide	past · do-support	the thieves	thieves's booty				beneath the forest tree	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent booty=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 cold stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stone	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stone	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a mossy log

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ground	det
2	ground	ground	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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