Exam question 3 · English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king pr…

What object did Mr. Vinegar exchange for the stout stick?

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

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1947 «English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king promises his son to a giant, and the boy escapes with the giant's daughter» 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	3 did	obj
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	6 exchange	compound
6	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 stick	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stick	det
9	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stick	amod
10	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	object	Vinegar exchange				for the stout stick	tree rules

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 pair of shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pair	det
2	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 shoes	case
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pair	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the pair of gloves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def 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 3

his gloves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 gloves	nmod:poss
2	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

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.

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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