Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is e…

Which character, having outrun an old man, an old woman and a little boy, was finally seized by the fox?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: character, fox · What happens: outrun, seize · To what, where: old man, character

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1966 «English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is eaten, and the dove flies to the queen» 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 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seized	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 outrun	punct
4	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 outrun	aux
5	outrun	outrun	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 character	acl:relcl
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 outrun	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 woman	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	appos
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 boy	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 boy	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boy	amod
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 character	punct
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seized	aux:pass
19	finally	finally	ADV	_	20 seized	advmod
20	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 fox	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fox	det
23	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seized	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 seized	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	outrun	gerund · perfect	which character not said here	a old man and a little boy					tree rules
2	seize	past · passive	the fox	which character				finally property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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

the old man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Johnny-cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Johnny	punct
3	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Johnny	appos

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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