Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca…

What object did Tommy Grimes ultimately place his leg against?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: do · To what, where: Tommy Grimes

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1967 «English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca with a sofa leg and runs home» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
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	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Grimes	compound
5	Grimes	grime	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	obj
6	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	7 place	advmod
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Grimes	nmod
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 leg	nmod:poss
9	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
10	against	against	ADP	_	9 leg	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	object	Tommy Grimes place					tree rules

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 leg of the sofa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 leg	det
2	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sofa	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sofa	det
5	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leg	nmod

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

Option 2

A leg of the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 leg	det
2	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 table	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 table	det
5	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leg	nmod

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

Option 3

The sofa's back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sofa	det
2	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 back	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sofa	case
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A leg of the old sofa by the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 leg	det
2	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 sofa	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sofa	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sofa	amod
6	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leg	nmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leg	nmod

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

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