Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, Gobborn Seer: Jack's clever wife send…

Which statement most accurately describes the effect of the tale Jack told on the journey to the foundation-stone?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: statement, effect · What happens: describe, tell, effect · To what, where: foundation stone, journey, tale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 244 «English Fairy Tales, Gobborn Seer: Jack's clever wife sends him back to tell a tale, and the king's son is trapped in a chest» 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 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 describes	nsubj
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 accurately	advmod
4	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	5 describes	advmod
5	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 effect	det
7	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 tale	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tale	det
10	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 effect	nmod
11	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 describes	parataxis
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 journey	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 journey	det
15	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 stone	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stone	det
18	foundation	foundation	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stone	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 foundation	punct
20	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	describe	present	which statement				accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	the effect of the tale		the foundation stone	the journey		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to stone=Recipient
3	effect			the tale				nom effect «phenomenon 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

It lengthened the road beyond all expectation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lengthened	nsubj
2	lengthened	lengthen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 road	det
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lengthened	obj
5	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	7 expectation	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 expectation	det
7	expectation	expectation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lengthened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lengthen	past	It	the road				beyond all expectation	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent road=Patient

Option 2

It caused the travellers to lose their way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caused	nsubj
2	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 travellers	det
4	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 caused	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 lose	mark
6	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 caused	xcomp
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 way	nmod:poss
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past	It	the travellers					tree rules
2	lose	to-infinitive	the travellers not said here	travellers's way					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality

Option 3

It delayed the arrival until the following morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 delayed	nsubj
2	delayed	delay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 arrival	det
4	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 delayed	obj
5	until	until	ADP	_	8 morning	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 morning	det
7	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 morning	amod
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 delayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	delay	past	It	the arrival			morning		vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent arrival=Source
2	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It shortened the road as the wife had predicted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shortened	nsubj
2	shortened	shorten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 road	det
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shortened	obj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 predicted	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wife	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 predicted	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 predicted	aux
9	predicted	predict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 shortened	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shorten	past	It	the road					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent road=Patient
2	predict	past · perfect	the wife						vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot

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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