Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: Dummling wins the…

State the number of drops of blood that fell upon the snow from the queen's needle, as recorded in the narrative.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, blood · What happens: state, fall, record · To what, where: number, needle, narrative

This is exam question 3 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 drops	case
5	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 blood	case
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drops	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 blood	acl:relcl
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 snow	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snow	det
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	17 needle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 queen	det
15	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 needle	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 queen	case
17	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 recorded	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 recorded	mark
20	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fell	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 narrative	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 narrative	det
23	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 recorded	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of drops of blood			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	fall	past	blood		the queen's needle	upon the snow	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon snow=Location
3	record	participle	blood not said here		the narrative		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in narrative=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

nine drops of blood fell upon the white snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 drops	nummod
2	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fell	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 blood	case
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drops	nmod
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 snow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snow	det
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 snow	amod
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	nine drops of blood			the white snow			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon snow=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

three drops fell from the needle onto snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 drops	nummod
2	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 needle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 needle	det
6	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
7	onto	onto	ADP	_	8 snow	case
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	three drops			the needle		onto snow	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from needle=Initial_Location onto snow=Destination

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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