Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut t…

Which affliction did the rich man's daughter suffer until she was made to laugh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: affliction, daughter · What happens: do, suffer, make, laugh · To what, where: daughter

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1965 «English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut to pieces, Lazy Jack wins a bride, and a cake escapes from the oven» 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 affliction	det
2	affliction	affliction	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 man	det
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 man	case
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suffer	nsubj
9	suffer	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 made	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux:pass
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 laugh	mark
15	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 made	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	which affliction		tree rules
2	suffer	present	the rich man's daughter		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	make	past · passive		daughter	tree rules
4	laugh	to-infinitive	daughter not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

deafness and muteness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	deafness	deafness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 muteness	cc
3	muteness	muteness	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 deafness	conj

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

Option 2

blindness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blindness	blindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

deafness and sadness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	deafness	deafness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sadness	cc
3	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 deafness	conj

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

Option 4

a fever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fever	det
2	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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