Exam question 4 · Grimm's Tales, The Brother and Sister: the Queen comes bac…

Determine the reason the woodcutter's wife gave for abandoning the children in the forest.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wife · What happens: determine, give, abandon · To what, where: reason, children, forest

This is exam question 4 of lesson 100 «Grimm's Tales, The Brother and Sister: the Queen comes back to life and the witch is punished» 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woodcutter	det
5	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wife	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 woodcutter	case
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reason	acl:relcl
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 abandoning	mark
10	abandoning	abandon	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 gave	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 children	det
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 abandoning	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 forest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forest	det
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 abandoning	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the reason		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic
2	give	past	the woodcutter's wife	the reason not said here		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
3	abandon	gerund	the woodcutter's wife not said here	the children	the forest	vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme child=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

They had no money and the children were growing too big for the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 money	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 growing	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 growing	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 growing	aux
9	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 had	conj
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 big	advmod
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 growing	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 big	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	no money					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
2	grow	past · progressive	the children					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The land had no food and they were starving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 land	det
2	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 food	det
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 starving	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 starving	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 starving	aux
9	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 had	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the land	no food					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
2	starve	past · progressive	they						tree rules

Option 3

Hunger in the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 house	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hunger	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Their family was faced with famine and could not feed all four of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 family	nmod:poss
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faced	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 faced	cop
4	faced	faced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 famine	case
6	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faced	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 feed	cc
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 feed	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 feed	advmod
10	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 faced	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 four	det
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 feed	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 four	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Their family					with famine; faced property	tree rules
2	not feed	could	Their family not said here	all four of them					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=Recipient

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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