Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats th…

Which object did the hero surrender to the old woman before receiving the wand in exchange?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, receive · To what, where: hero surrender, wand, exchange

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1963 «English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats the three-headed Ettin with riddles and a magic wand, and frees the king's daughter and the prisoners.» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 surrender	det
5	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 surrender	compound
6	surrender	surrender	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 woman	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 receiving	mark
12	receiving	receive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 did	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wand	det
14	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 receiving	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 exchange	case
16	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 receiving	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the hero surrender				to the old woman	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surrender=Eventuality
2	receive	gerund	which object not said here	the wand		exchange			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wand=Theme in exchange=Location

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

a piece of his johnny-cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 cake	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cake	nmod:poss
5	johnny	johnny	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cake	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 johnny	punct
7	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod

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

Option 2

the whole johnny-cake from his travel sack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cake	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cake	amod
3	johnny	johnny	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cake	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 johnny	punct
5	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 sack	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sack	nmod:poss
8	travel	travel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sack	compound
9	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cake	nmod

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

Option 3

a piece of his bread roll

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 roll	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 roll	nmod:poss
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roll	compound
6	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll		his = he						nom roll «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

a piece of his johnny-cake and his last coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 cake	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cake	nmod:poss
5	johnny	johnny	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cake	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 johnny	punct
7	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 coin	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 coin	nmod:poss
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 coin	amod
11	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	coin		his = he						nom coin «possession 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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