Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 16: the o…

exam: What was the principal reward proffered by the magistrates to the slayer of Cormoran?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: exam · What happens: be, proffer · To what, where: principal reward, slayer

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1957 «English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 16: the old Woman flees the bears, and Jack fools the Welsh giant with pudding» 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	exam	exam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reward	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 reward	punct
3	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 reward	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reward	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reward	det
6	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reward	amod
7	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	proffered	proffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 reward	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 magistrates	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 magistrates	det
11	magistrates	magistrate	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 proffered	obl:agent
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 slayer	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 slayer	det
14	slayer	slayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 proffered	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Cormoran	case
16	Cormoran	Cormoran	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 slayer	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reward	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	exam	the principal reward					tree rules
2	proffer	participle		the principal reward not said here	the slayer of Cormoran				vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to slayer=Recipient

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 right answer

The giant's treasure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 treasure	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 giant	case
4	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treasure		the giant						nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Gold coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coins	compound
2	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

The castle's silver plate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 castle	det
2	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plate	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 castle	case
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plate	compound
5	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A bag of money and the giant's lands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 money	case
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bag	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lands	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lands	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 giant	case
9	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bag	conj

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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