Exam question 3 · English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tr…

Which of the following accurately identifies the object which Childe Rowland received from his mother?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Childe · What happens: follow, identify, receive · To what, where: object

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1960 «English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tricks the chicken-crew into his cave, and Childe Rowland enters the Dark Tower of Elfland» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 identifies	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 identifies	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 identifies	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 identifies	nsubj
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 identifies	advmod
6	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 object	det
8	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 received	obj
10	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 received	nsubj
11	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Childe	flat
12	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 object	acl:relcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 mother	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 received	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 identifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present		the object	accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
3	receive	past	Childe	the object	from Childe's mother	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent which=Theme from mother=Source

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

His brother's old shield

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shield	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 brother	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shield	amod
5	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A silver crown from the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crown	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crown	amod
3	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crown	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His father's good brand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brand	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 father	case
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brand	amod
5	brand	brand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brand		His father						nom brand «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

His father's good brand and a golden shield of war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brand	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 father	case
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brand	amod
5	brand	brand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shield	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 shield	det
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shield	amod
9	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brand	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 war	case
11	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shield	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brand		His father						nom brand «communication transitive»: poss=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.

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