Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13…

Which object was bequeathed to Jack by his father, and under what condition was it to be opened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: father · What happens: bequeath, open · To what, where: object, Jack, condition

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1954 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13: Jack wins a castle, loses it, and sets out to find it» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bequeathed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bequeathed	aux:pass
4	bequeathed	bequeath	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Jack	case
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bequeathed	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 father	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bequeathed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 opened	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 opened	cc
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 condition	case
13	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	14 condition	det
14	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 opened	obl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 opened	aux:pass
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 opened	nsubj:pass
17	to	to	PART	_	19 opened	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 opened	aux:pass
19	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bequeathed	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bequeathed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bequeath	past · passive	Jack's father	which object	Jack				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to jack=Goal
2	open	past · passive		object		what condition			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme under condition=Location

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 snuff-box, opened at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 box	det
2	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 box	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 snuff	punct
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 opened	punct
6	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 box	acl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 opened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	participle		a snuff box not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a golden snuff-box, to be opened only near death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 box	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
3	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 box	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 snuff	punct
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 opened	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	9 opened	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 opened	aux:pass
9	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 box	acl:relcl
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 death	advmod
11	near	near	ADP	_	12 death	case
12	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	to-infinitive · passive				death			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: near death=Location

Option 3

a golden snuff-box, to be opened at sunrise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 box	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
3	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 box	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 snuff	punct
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 opened	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	9 opened	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 opened	aux:pass
9	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 box	acl:relcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 sunrise	case
11	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	to-infinitive · passive					sunrise		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»

Option 4

a silver snuff-box, to be kept unopened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 box	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
3	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 box	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 snuff	punct
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kept	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	9 kept	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 kept	aux:pass
9	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 box	acl:relcl
10	unopened	unopened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive · passive						unopened property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»

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