Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack frees the…

Which phrase most accurately characterises the reward bestowed upon Jack for his services?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phrase · What happens: characteris, bestow, service · To what, where: reward

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1959 «English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack frees the captives, beats the two-headed giant Thunderdell, then wins a duke's daughter from a giant and conjurer» 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 phrase	det
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 characterises	nsubj
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 accurately	advmod
4	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	5 characterises	advmod
5	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reward	det
7	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 characterises	obj
8	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 reward	acl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 Jack	case
10	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bestowed	obl:agent
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 services	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 services	nmod:poss
13	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bestowed	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	characteris	present	which phrase	the reward	accurately property	tree rules
2	bestow	participle		the reward not said here	for phrase's services	tree rules
3	service		phrase			nom service «act transitive»: poss=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

an estate and a noble title

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 estate	det
2	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 title	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 title	det
5	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 title	amod
6	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 estate	conj

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

Option 2

a noble castle and a royal title

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 castle	det
2	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 castle	amod
3	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 title	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 title	det
6	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 title	amod
7	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 castle	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a noble castle with an estate, and the duke's daughter in marriage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 castle	det
2	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 castle	amod
3	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 estate	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 estate	det
6	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 castle	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 daughter	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 daughter	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 duke	det
10	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 daughter	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 duke	case
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 castle	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 marriage	case
14	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 daughter	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a small farm, a barrel of ale, and a promise that the king would visit him every spring for the rest of his life

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 farm	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 farm	amod
3	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 barrel	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 barrel	det
6	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 farm	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 ale	case
8	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 barrel	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 promise	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 promise	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 promise	det
12	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 farm	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 visit	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 visit	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 visit	aux
17	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 promise	acl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 visit	obj
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 spring	det
20	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 visit	obl:unmarked
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 rest	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rest	det
23	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 visit	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 life	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 life	nmod:poss
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	would	the king	him = he			spring	for the rest of king's life	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1959-pg7439-part18/e4/