Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 10: Jack…

State the manner in which the ogre's wife conceals Jack upon the arrival of her husband.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, wife, husband · What happens: state, conceal, arrive · To what, where: manner, Jack

This is exam question 2 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 conceals	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ogre	det
7	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wife	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 ogre	case
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conceals	nsubj
10	conceals	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 State	parataxis
11	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 conceals	obj
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 arrival	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 arrival	det
14	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conceals	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 husband	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 husband	nmod:poss
17	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 arrival	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the manner		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent manner=Topic
2	conceal	present	the ogre's wife	Jack	upon the arrival of wife's husband	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent jack=Patient in which=Location
3	arrive		wife's husband			nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

By placing him in the oven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 placing	mark
2	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 placing	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 oven	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oven	det
6	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 placing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	gerund		him = he		the oven			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in oven=Destination

Option 2

In the oven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 oven	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 oven	det
3	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

By putting him in a box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 putting	mark
2	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 putting	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 box	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 box	det
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 putting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	gerund		him = he		a box			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in box=Destination

Option 4

By hiding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 hiding	mark
2	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund							vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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