Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow…

Identify the sequence in which Jack secured his escape from the mill.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Jack · What happens: identify, secure, escape · To what, where: sequence, escape

This is exam question 2 of lesson 248 «English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow, a blinded giant, and a fox sneaks into the bears' castle» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sequence	det
3	sequence	sequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 secured	obl
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 secured	nsubj
7	secured	secure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sequence	acl:relcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 escape	nmod:poss
9	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 secured	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 mill	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mill	det
12	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 secured	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the sequence			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sequence=Theme
2	secure	past	Jack	Jack's escape	the sequence	from the mill	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent escape=Theme from mill=Source
3	escape		Jack				nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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

He stabbed the giant, then escaped on a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stabbed	nsubj
2	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stabbed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 escaped	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 escaped	advmod
7	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stabbed	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 horse	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 escaped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past	He	the giant					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Patient
2	escape	participle	He not said here				then	on a horse	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He disguised himself, then blinded the giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 disguised	nsubj
2	disguised	disguise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 disguised	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blinded	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 blinded	advmod
6	blinded	blind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 disguised	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blinded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disguise	past	He	himself = he					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Destination
2	blind	past	He not said here	the giant			then		tree rules

Option 3

He hid in the mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 mill	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mill	det
5	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	He			the mill			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mill=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He blinded the giant, then disguised himself in the dog's hide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blinded	nsubj
2	blinded	blind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 blinded	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 disguised	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 disguised	advmod
7	disguised	disguise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 blinded	conj
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 disguised	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 hide	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dog	det
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hide	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 dog	case
13	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 disguised	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blind	past	He	the giant					tree rules
2	disguise	past	He not said here	himself = he			then	in the dog's hide	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination in hide=Theme

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