Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard: Jack wins the Pr…

Identify the sequence in which the brothers and Jack arrived before the Princess, as recorded in the text.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, brothers · What happens: identify, arrive, record · To what, where: sequence, text

This is exam question 4 of lesson 820 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard: Jack wins the Princess with clay, a crow and a wooden 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	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	10 arrived	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brothers	det
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 arrived	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Jack	cc
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 brothers	conj
10	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sequence	acl:relcl
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 Princess	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Princess	det
13	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 arrived	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 recorded	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 recorded	mark
16	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	parataxis
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 text	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 text	det
19	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 recorded	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	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	arrive	past	the brothers and Jack		the sequence	before the Princess	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	record	participle			the text		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in text=Destination

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

Jack arrived before the brothers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 arrived	nsubj
2	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 brothers	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brothers	det
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 arrived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	Jack				before the brothers		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The brothers first, then Jack last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brothers	det
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 brothers	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Jack	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 Jack	advmod
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 brothers	nmod
7	last	last	ADV	_	2 brothers	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The brothers first, one after another, and then Jack arriving last of all

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brothers	det
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 arriving	nsubj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 brothers	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 brothers	appos
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 another	case
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 one	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 arriving	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 arriving	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 arriving	advmod
11	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 arriving	nsubj
12	arriving	arrive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	last	last	ADV	_	12 arriving	advmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 last	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	gerund	the brothers				then	last property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Jack first, then the eldest brother, then the others by a full hour later

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Jack	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 brother	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 brother	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brother	det
6	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 brother	amod
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Jack	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 others	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 others	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 others	det
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 brother	nmod
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 hour	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hour	det
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hour	amod
15	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 others	nmod
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 brother	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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