Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's bl…

How did the old woman describe her own condition at the conclusion of the tale?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: describe, condition, conclude · To what, where: own condition, conclusion, tale

This is exam question 4 of lesson 243 «English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's black pot turns from gold to silver to iron to stone, and then into a horse-sized kow» 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	6 describe	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 describe	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 describe	nsubj
6	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 condition	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 condition	amod
9	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 describe	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 conclusion	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 conclusion	det
12	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 describe	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 tale	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tale	det
15	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 conclusion	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	describe	past · do-support	the old woman	woman's own condition	the conclusion of the tale	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent condition=Theme
2	condition		woman			nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent
3	conclude			the tale		nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=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 right answer

as the luckiest body hereabouts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADP	_	5 hereabouts	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hereabouts	det
3	luckiest	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 hereabouts	amod
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hereabouts	compound
5	hereabouts	hereabout	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

as the luckiest woman who ever lived in this town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADP	_	4 woman	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	luckiest	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lived	nsubj
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 lived	advmod
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 woman	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 town	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 town	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the luckiest woman			this town	ever		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location

Option 3

as the happiest soul in town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADP	_	4 soul	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soul	det
3	happiest	happy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 soul	amod
4	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 town	case
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soul	nmod

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

Option 4

as the most fortunate old body in all the county

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADP	_	6 body	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 body	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 fortunate	advmod
4	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 body	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 body	amod
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 county	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 county	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 county	det
10	county	county	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 body	nmod

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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