Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, The Three Little Pigs: the wolf fails…

Of what material was the second little pig's dwelling constructed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: second little pig · What happens: dwell, construct

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1952 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Little Pigs: the wolf fails at three houses and ends up boiled in the pot» 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 dwelling	obl
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dwelling	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pig	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 pig	amod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pig	amod
8	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dwelling	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dwelling	aux
10	dwelling	dwell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 constructed	nsubj:pass
11	constructed	construct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 constructed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dwell	past · progressive	the second little pig						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	construct	participle · passive							vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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

furze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	furze	furze	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

thatch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thatch	thatch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ash	ash	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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