Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: t…

With what implement did the Giant strike the bed at midnight?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: Giant strike

This is exam question 1 of lesson 109 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: the Tailor outwits a Giant and wins a King's dangerous task» 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	_	3 implement	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 implement	det
3	implement	implement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 strike	det
6	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 strike	amod
7	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bed	det
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl:unmarked
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 midnight	case
11	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Giant strike			midnight	with what implement; the bed obl:unmarked	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strike=Eventuality

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

an iron bar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bar	det
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bar	compound
3	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a club

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 club	det
2	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a wooden pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pole	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pole	amod
3	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a steel knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 knife	det
2	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knife	compound
3	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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