Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a st…

In what manner did the pixy respond upon discovering her observation?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pixy respond, her · What happens: do, discover, observe · To what, where: pixy respond, manner, observation

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1974 «English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a stolen look that costs an eye» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 respond	det
6	pixy	pixy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 respond	amod
7	respond	respond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	9 discovering	mark
9	discovering	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 respond	acl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 observation	nmod:poss
11	observation	observation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 discovering	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past		the pixy respond	what manner	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respond=Eventuality
2	discover	gerund	the pixy respond not said here	her observation		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent observation=Topic
3	observe		her = she			nom observation «act transitive»: poss=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

he struck her left eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 struck	nsubj
2	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eye	nmod:poss
4	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eye	amod
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	he	her left eye					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

Option 2

he struck her right eye with his iron staff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 struck	nsubj
2	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 struck	obj
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eye	amod
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 staff	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 staff	nmod:poss
8	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 staff	compound
9	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	he	her = she				with his iron staff	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient eye=Result with staff=Instrument

Option 3

he slapped her left cheek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slapped	nsubj
2	slapped	slap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cheek	nmod:poss
4	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cheek	amod
5	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slapped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slap	past	he	her left cheek					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he struck her right eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 struck	nsubj
2	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 struck	obj
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eye	amod
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	he	her = she					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent she=Patient eye=Result

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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