Exam question 3 · English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's c…

To what does the narrator attribute the loss of the white bread?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: narrator · What happens: attribute · To what, where: loss

This is exam question 3 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 attribute	obl
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 attribute	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 narrator	det
5	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attribute	nsubj
6	attribute	attribute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 loss	det
8	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attribute	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 bread	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bread	det
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bread	amod
12	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loss	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 attribute	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attribute	present · do-support	the narrator	the loss of the white bread					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

the robbers taking the bag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 robbers	det
2	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 taking	nsubj
3	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bag	det
5	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund	the robbers	the bag					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme

Option 2

the pigs eating it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pigs	det
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eating	nsubj
3	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund	the pigs	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Mally blowing it by mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mally	mally	ADV	_	2 blowing	advmod
2	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blowing	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 mistake	case
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blowing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	gerund		it				by mistake; mally property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the wind carrying the meal away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 wind	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meal	det
5	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carrying	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 carrying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry away	gerund	the wind not said here	the meal				away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Theme

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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