Exam question 3 · English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 10: Jack…
Specify the signal by which the golden hen is caused to deposit a golden egg.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, golden hen · What happens: specify, cause, deposit · To what, where: signal, golden hen, golden egg
This is exam question 3 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 | Specify | specify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 signal | det |
| 3 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Specify | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 caused | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hen | det |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hen | amod |
| 8 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 caused | aux:pass |
| 10 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Specify | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 deposit | mark |
| 12 | deposit | deposit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 caused | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 egg | det |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 egg | amod |
| 15 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deposit | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Specify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | specify | imperative | you not said here | the signal | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent signal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cause | present · passive | the golden hen | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | deposit | to-infinitive | the golden hen not said here | a golden egg | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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 right answer
The spoken word "Lay"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 word | amod |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lay | punct |
| 5 | Lay | Lay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 word | appos |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | participle | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
A whistle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 whistle | det |
| 2 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A loud clap of hands
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 clap | det |
| 2 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clap | amod |
| 3 | clap | clap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hands | case |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 clap | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clap | hands | nom clap «event transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
Word 'Go'
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Go | punct |
| 3 | Go | Go | PROPN | _ | 1 Word | appos |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Go | punct |
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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