Exam question 1 · Grimm's Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear…
Upon what condition did the King permit the youth to enter the enchanted castle?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: condition · What happens: do, enter, enchant · To what, where: King permit, enchanted castle
This is exam question 1 of lesson 103 «Grimm's Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 6: the youth fights the cats and the wild bed in the castle» 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 | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | obj |
| 3 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 permit | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 permit | compound |
| 7 | permit | permit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 youth | det |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 enter | mark |
| 11 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 youth | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 13 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 castle | amod |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enter | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | condition | the King permit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | to-infinitive | condition not said here | the enchanted castle | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme castle=Destination | ||||
| 3 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Three requests of inanimate objects
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 requests | nummod |
| 2 | requests | request | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 objects | case |
| 4 | inanimate | inanimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 objects | amod |
| 5 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 requests | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | request | inanimate objects | nom request «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2
Three requests of living servants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 requests | nummod |
| 2 | requests | request | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 servants | case |
| 4 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 servants | amod |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 requests | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | request | living servants | nom request «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3
Three requests of silver tools
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 requests | nummod |
| 2 | requests | request | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tools | case |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tools | compound |
| 5 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 requests | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | request | silver tools | nom request «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
Three requests of gold coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 requests | nummod |
| 2 | requests | request | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 coins | case |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coins | compound |
| 5 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 requests | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | request | gold coins | nom request «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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