Exam question 3 · Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wif…
Beneath which tree did the rich man's wife stand while peeling the apples?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, peel · To what, where: wife stand, apples
This is exam question 3 of lesson 763 «Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wife wishes for a red-and-white child, and her stepson's life turns dark» 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 | Beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 3 tree | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 tree | det |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 man | case |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stand | compound |
| 10 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 peeling | mark |
| 12 | peeling | peel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 did | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 apples | det |
| 14 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 peeling | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the rich man's wife stand | beneath which tree | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stand=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | peel | gerund | the apples | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Source |
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
A tall apple-tree near the farmhouse gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tree | amod |
| 3 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 apple | punct |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 gate | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gate | det |
| 8 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gate | compound |
| 9 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A juniper-tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 2 | juniper | juniper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 juniper | punct |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A birch-tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 2 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 birch | punct |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A willow-tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 2 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 willow | punct |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/763-pg2591-part39/e3/