Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 16: the o…

exam: What quantity of hasty pudding was contained in the bowl presented to Jack at breakfast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: contain, present · To what, where: exam, bowl, Jack, breakfast

This is exam question 4 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	9 contained	nsubj:pass
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 quantity	punct
3	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 quantity	det
4	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 exam	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 pudding	case
6	hasty	hasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pudding	amod
7	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quantity	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 contained	aux:pass
9	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 bowl	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bowl	det
12	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 contained	obl
13	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 bowl	acl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Jack	case
15	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 presented	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 breakfast	case
17	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 presented	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 contained	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	past · passive		exam		the bowl			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in bowl=Location
2	present	participle		the bowl not said here	Jack	breakfast			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to jack=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

Four gallons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 gallons	nummod
2	gallons	gallon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Four quarts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 quarts	nummod
2	quarts	quart	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Three gallons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 gallons	nummod
2	gallons	gallon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Four gallons of hot hasty pudding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 gallons	nummod
2	gallons	gallon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 pudding	case
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pudding	amod
5	hasty	hasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pudding	amod
6	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gallons	nmod

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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