Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Ja…

With what implement did the protagonist's father chastise him upon the second occasion?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: father · What happens: chastise · To what, where: implement

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1973 «English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Jack gets three magic gifts, loses two, and wins his sweetheart» 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	With	with	SCONJ	_	4 did	mark
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 implement	det
3	implement	implement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 chastise	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 protagonist	det
6	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 father	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 protagonist	case
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chastise	nsubj
9	chastise	chastise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chastise	obj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 occasion	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 occasion	det
13	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 occasion	amod
14	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chastise	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 chastise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chastise	past · do-support	the protagonist's father	implement				upon the second occasion	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

With a warming-pan taken from the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	5 pan	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pan	det
3	warming	warming	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pan	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 warming	punct
5	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pan	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 wall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wall	det
9	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	participle		a warming pan not said here		the wall			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from wall=Initial_Location

Option 2

With his own bare fists and a big leather belt taken from the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	5 fists	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fists	nmod:poss
3	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fists	amod
4	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fists	amod
5	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 belt	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 belt	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 belt	amod
9	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 belt	compound
10	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fists	conj
11	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 belt	acl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 wall	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wall	det
14	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	participle		a big leather belt not said here		the wall			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from wall=Initial_Location

Option 3

With a heavy warming-pan taken from the wall of the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	6 pan	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pan	det
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pan	amod
4	warming	warming	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pan	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 warming	punct
6	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 pan	acl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 wall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wall	det
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taken	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 kitchen	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 kitchen	det
13	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wall	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	participle		a heavy warming pan not said here		the wall of the kitchen			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from wall=Initial_Location

Option 4

With a wooden spoon from the hearth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	4 spoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spoon	det
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spoon	amod
4	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 hearth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hearth	det
7	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoon	nmod

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

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