Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 10: Jack…
Identify the object which Jack secures from the ogre's residence on the first occasion of his visit.
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, object, Jack · What happens: identify, secure, occasion, visit · To what, where: object, residence, visit
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1951 «English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 10: Jack steals gold and a golden hen from the ogre's house» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 object | det |
| 3 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 secures | nsubj |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 secures | nsubj |
| 6 | secures | secure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 object | acl:relcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 residence | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ogre | det |
| 9 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 residence | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 ogre | case |
| 11 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 secures | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 occasion | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 occasion | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 occasion | amod |
| 15 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 secures | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 visit | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 visit | nmod:poss |
| 18 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 occasion | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the object | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme | ||||
| 2 | secure | present | the object | the ogre's residence | on the first occasion of Jack's visit | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from residence=Source | |||
| 3 | occasion | Jack's visit | nom occasion «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | visit | Jack | nom visit «act 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
A silver cup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cup | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cup | compound |
| 3 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A cup of silver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cup | det |
| 2 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 silver | case |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cup | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
A golden hen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hen | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hen | amod |
| 3 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A bag of gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bag | det |
| 2 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 gold | case |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bag | 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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