Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, part 10: Cat…
Identify the means by which the queen met her death.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, the, queen · What happens: identify, mean, meet, die · To what, where: death · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 4 of lesson 107 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, part 10: Catherine loses the sausage and the beer, then wastes the butter and cheese on the road to find the gold» 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 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Identify | ccomp |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 met | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | nsubj |
| 8 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | ccomp |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 death | nmod:poss |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | the | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | meet | past | the queen | queen's death | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | die | queen | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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
love and jealousy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 jealousy | cc |
| 3 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 love | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
passion, illness, and a curse from the mirror
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 illness | punct |
| 3 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 passion | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 curse | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 curse | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 curse | det |
| 7 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 passion | conj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 mirror | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mirror | det |
| 10 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 curse | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
passion and illness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 illness | cc |
| 3 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 passion | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a poisoned apple eaten at the wedding feast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 apple | det |
| 2 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 apple | amod |
| 3 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 apple | acl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 feast | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 feast | det |
| 7 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feast | compound |
| 8 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eaten | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | eat | participle | a poisoned apple not said here | the wedding feast | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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