Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: Dummling wins the…

With reference to the text, identify the test by which the sovereign's succession was ultimately determined.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, succession · What happens: identify, be · To what, where: test

This is exam question 2 of lesson 105 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: Dummling wins the crown with a carpet, a ring and a bride; then Snow-White begins» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 identify	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 text	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct
7	identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 test	det
9	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 identify	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 determined	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sovereign	det
13	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 succession	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 sovereign	case
15	succession	succession	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 determined	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 determined	cop
17	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	18 determined	advmod
18	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 identify	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the test				with reference to the text	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent test=Theme
2	is	past	the sovereign's succession					determined, ultimately property	tree rules

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 leaping of the peasant women over a hoop held high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leaping	det
2	leaping	leaping	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 held	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 women	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 women	det
5	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 women	amod
6	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leaping	nmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 hoop	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hoop	det
9	hoop	hoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaping	nmod
10	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 held	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	participle · passive		the leaping of the peasant women over a hoop				high property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

the trial of the three feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trial	det
2	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 feathers	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 feathers	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 feathers	nummod
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trial	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try			the three feathers					nom trial «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the leaping of the women through the hoop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leaping	det
2	leaping	leaping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 women	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 women	det
5	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leaping	nmod
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 hoop	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hoop	det
8	hoop	hoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaping	nmod

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

Option 4

the ring test with the iron harness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 test	det
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 test	compound
3	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 harness	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 harness	det
6	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 harness	amod
7	harness	harness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 test	nmod

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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