Exam question 3 · Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom m…

What did the three-headed giant bestow upon Tom?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: headed giant · What happens: bestow

This is exam question 3 of lesson 2021 «Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom makes the princess laugh twice and sends off the wolf» 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	8 bestow	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bestow	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 headed	nummod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 three	punct
6	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 giant	amod
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bestow	nsubj
8	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 Tom	case
10	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bestow	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 bestow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bestow	past · do-support	the headed giant					upon Tom	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

A pot of silver powder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pot	det
2	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 powder	case
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 powder	compound
5	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pot	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A bottle of green ointment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bottle	det
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 ointment	case
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ointment	amod
5	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bottle	nmod

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

Option 3

A green jar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 jar	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jar	amod
3	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A flask of blue tonic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 flask	det
2	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 tonic	mark
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tonic	amod
5	tonic	tonic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flask	acl

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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