Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's c…

How did the robbers respond when the door fell upon their table?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: robbers, door · What happens: respond, fall · To what, where: table · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 respond	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 respond	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 robbers	det
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 respond	nsubj
5	respond	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 fell	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 respond	ccomp
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 table	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 table	nmod:poss
12	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 respond	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	respond speech: other	past · do-support	the robbers						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fall	past	the door			robbers's table			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon table=Location

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

they grabbed the money and ran out of the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grabbed	nsubj
2	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 money	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grabbed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ran	cc
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grabbed	conj
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 hill	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hill	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hill	det
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	they	the money					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
2	run	past	they not said here			the hill			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out hill=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

they fled in alarm from the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 alarm	case
4	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fled	obl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 table	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 table	det
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	they			alarm		from the table	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from table=Initial_Location

Option 3

they sat still and ate supper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ate	cc
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
6	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	they				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	past	they not said here	supper					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient

Option 4

they kept counting the coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	counting	count	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coins	det
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 counting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	they						tree rules
2	count	gerund	they not said here	the coins					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=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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