Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, The Three Little Pigs: the wolf fails…

By what means did the learned man secure his book of secrets?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: learned man · What happens: mean, learn, secure · To what, where: book

This is exam question 4 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 secure	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 secure	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 secure	nsubj
8	secure	secure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 book	nmod:poss
10	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 secure	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 secrets	case
12	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 book	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 secure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	learn	participle			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	secure	past · do-support	the learned man	man's book of secrets	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition book=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

with a silver key

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	4 key	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 key	det
3	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 key	amod
4	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

by a key

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 key	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 key	det
3	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

with an iron key

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	4 key	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 key	det
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 key	compound
4	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

with a lock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	3 lock	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lock	det
3	lock	lock	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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