Exam question 1 · More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp…

With what words does Tom summon the creature known as Yallery Brown?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tom · What happens: summon, know · To what, where: creature

This is exam question 1 of lesson 240 «More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp out and is cursed» 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	what	what	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 summon	obl
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 summon	aux
5	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 summon	nsubj
6	summon	summon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 creature	det
8	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 summon	obj
9	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 creature	acl
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 Brown	case
11	Yallery	Yallery	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Brown	compound
12	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 known	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 summon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	summon	present · do-support	Tom	the creature				with what words	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Recipient
2	know	participle		the creature not said here				as Yallery Brown	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as brown=Attribute

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 right answer

"Yallery Brown, come from the mools"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yallery	punct
2	Yallery	Yallery	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Yallery	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Yallery	conj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 mools	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mools	det
8	mools	mool	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	obl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yallery	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present				the mools			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mool=Initial_Location

Option 2

Yallery, come

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yallery	Yallery	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 come	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yallery	punct
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive	Yallery						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Come, Yallery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Yallery	punct
3	Yallery	Yallery	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here	Yallery					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yallery Brown, come out from the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yallery	Yallery	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
2	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Yallery	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yallery	punct
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	infinitive	Yallery			the wood		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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