Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dry…
Upon which object did Jack the Dullard first chance while travelling along the high road?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, travel · To what, where: Jack, high road
This is exam question 3 of lesson 819 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dryad vanishes at dawn, then Jack sets off on his Billy-goat and finds a dead crow and an old shoe» 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 3 object | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 object | det |
| 3 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Dullard | det |
| 7 | Dullard | Dullard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Jack | flat |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 did | advmod |
| 9 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 travelling | mark |
| 11 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 did | advcl |
| 12 | along | along | ADP | _ | 15 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 road | det |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 road | amod |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 travelling | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | Jack | chance obl:unmarked; first property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | travel | gerund | which object not said here | the high road | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory |
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 · ✓ the right answer
a dead crow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crow | det |
| 2 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crow | amod |
| 3 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a broken spoon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spoon | det |
| 2 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spoon | amod |
| 3 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
a dead crow lying across the road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crow | det |
| 2 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crow | amod |
| 3 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 crow | acl |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | a dead crow not said here | the road | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
an old wooden shoe and a rusty iron key
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 shoe | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shoe | amod |
| 3 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shoe | amod |
| 4 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 key | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 key | det |
| 7 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 key | amod |
| 8 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 key | compound |
| 9 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shoe | conj |
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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