Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle…

Which creature was the first to give information regarding the whereabouts of the castle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature · What happens: be, give, regard · To what, where: information

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1955 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle is found and carried away over the sea» 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 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 first	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 first	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 first	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 first	acl
8	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
9	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 whereabouts	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 whereabouts	det
11	whereabouts	whereabouts	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 information	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 castle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 castle	det
14	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 whereabouts	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 first	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	which creature		first property	tree rules
2	give	to-infinitive		information	regard the whereabouts of the castle	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent information=Theme
3	regard	gerund				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 frog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The eagle himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eagle	det
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	2 eagle	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The King of the mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 mice	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mice	det
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 King	nmod

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

Option 4

The King of frogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 frogs	case
4	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 King	nmod

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

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