Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king pr…

What did the giant's daughter employ to impede her pursuer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant · What happens: do, impede, employ · To what, where: daughter employ, pursuer

This is exam question 4 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 employ	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 giant	case
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 employ	compound
7	employ	employ	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 impede	mark
9	impede	impede	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 did	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pursuer	nmod:poss
11	pursuer	pursuer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 impede	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the giant's daughter employ	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality
2	impede	to-infinitive		giant's pursuer	vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer pursuer=Eventuality
3	employ		the giant		nom employ «state transitive»: poss=agent

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

her comb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 comb	nmod:poss
2	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a bowl of hot water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bowl	det
2	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 water	case
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bowl	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the comb from her hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 comb	det
2	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 hair	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hair	nmod:poss
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comb	nmod

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

Option 4

a stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	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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