Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, The Three Little Pigs: the wolf fails…

What did the wolf request upon arriving at the third dwelling?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, arrive · To what, where: wolf request, third dwelling

This is exam question 2 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	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	5 request	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 request	compound
5	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	7 arriving	mark
7	arriving	arrive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 did	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 dwelling	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dwelling	det
10	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 dwelling	amod
11	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arriving	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the wolf request					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality
2	arrive	gerund				the third dwelling			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

a quick look in the cottage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 look	det
2	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 look	amod
3	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cottage	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cottage	det
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

admittance to the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	admittance	admittance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 house	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 admittance	nmod

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

Option 3

permission to come in and see the sleeping pigs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 come	mark
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 permission	acl
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 see	cc
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pigs	det
8	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pigs	compound
9	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in	to-infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive		the sleeping pigs					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pig=Stimulus

Option 4

a warm meal in the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 meal	det
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 meal	amod
3	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 kitchen	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kitchen	det
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meal	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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