Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hoby…
What does the lass propose to offer the fool in return for his company?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lass · What happens: propose, offer · To what, where: fool, return
This is exam question 4 of lesson 253 «English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hobyahs are beaten, the fool's mother dies, and a lass offers to help him» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 propose | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 propose | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lass | det |
| 4 | lass | lass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 propose | nsubj |
| 5 | propose | propose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 offer | mark |
| 7 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 propose | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fool | det |
| 9 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 offer | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 return | case |
| 11 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 offer | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 company | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 company | nmod:poss |
| 14 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 return | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 propose | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | present · do-support | the lass | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | offer | to-infinitive | the lass not said here | the fool | return for lass's company | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent fool=Theme |
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
Housework and loyal care for him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Housework | housework | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 care | cc |
| 3 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 care | amod |
| 4 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Housework | conj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Housework | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Domestic care and devoted service as a wife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 care | amod |
| 2 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 service | cc |
| 4 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 service | amod |
| 5 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 care | conj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wife | det |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 care | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Loyal service as a faithful wife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 service | amod |
| 2 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 wife | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 5 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wife | amod |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 service | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Devoted domestic care and loyal service as a faithful wife for life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 care | amod |
| 2 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 care | amod |
| 3 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 service | cc |
| 5 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 service | amod |
| 6 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 care | conj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 wife | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wife | det |
| 9 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wife | amod |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 care | nmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | 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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