Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the…

Identify the object which the old woman occupied last in the house of the three bears.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, old woman · What happens: identify, occupy · To what, where: object, house

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1956 «English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the castle home and meets his wife and son» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 object	det
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 occupied	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 occupied	nsubj
8	occupied	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 object	acl:relcl
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 occupied	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 occupied	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 bears	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bears	det
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 bears	nummod
16	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 house	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the object					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
2	occupy	past	the old woman	the object		the house of the three bears		last property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer

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 chair of the Little, Small, Wee Bear that broke under her weight

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chair	det
2	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Little	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Little	det
5	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chair	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Bear	punct
7	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Bear	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Small	punct
9	Wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Bear	amod
10	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chair	conj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 broke	nsubj
12	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Bear	acl:relcl
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 weight	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 weight	nmod:poss
15	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	Small Wee Bear			her weight			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under weight=Location

Option 2

the bed of the Little, Small, Wee Bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bed	det
2	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Little	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Little	det
5	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bed	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Bear	punct
7	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Bear	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Small	punct
9	Wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Bear	amod
10	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bed	conj

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

Option 3

the Middle Bear's chair beside the big fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Bear	det
2	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Bear	compound
3	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chair	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Bear	case
5	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	beside	beside	ADP	_	9 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fire	amod
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chair	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the chair of the Little, Small, Wee Bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chair	det
2	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Little	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Little	det
5	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chair	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Bear	punct
7	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Bear	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Small	punct
9	Wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Bear	amod
10	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chair	conj

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

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