Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's c…

Which object fell upon the robbers' table to disperse them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: fall, disperse · To what, where: table, robbers

This is exam question 2 of lesson 236 «English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's chores, loses the groats to a robber, and the couple wins them back» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 table	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 robbers	det
6	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 table	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 robbers	case
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 disperse	mark
10	disperse	disperse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fell	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 disperse	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	which object			the robbers's table			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon table=Location
2	disperse	to-infinitive	which object not said here	robbers = robber					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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 iron pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pot	det
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pot	compound
3	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the wooden bench

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 table	det
2	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the house-door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 door	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 house	punct
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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