Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: t…

In what location did the Tailor first encounter the Giant, according to the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: location, Tailor · What happens: do, encounter, accord · To what, where: Giant

This is exam question 2 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	location	location	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	6 Tailor	det
6	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 encounter	nsubj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 encounter	advmod
8	encounter	encounter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Giant	det
10	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 encounter	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 narrative	punct
12	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 narrative	case
13	to	to	ADP	_	12 according	fixed
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 narrative	det
15	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 encounter	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	location			tree rules
2	encounter	infinitive	the Tailor	the Giant	accord the narrative; first property	vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus
3	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

upon the summit of a hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	upon	upon	ADP	_	3 summit	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 summit	det
3	summit	summit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hill	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hill	det
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 summit	nmod

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

Option 2

at the far edge of a deep and silent valley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	4 edge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 edge	det
3	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 edge	amod
4	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 valley	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 valley	det
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 valley	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 silent	cc
9	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deep	conj
10	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 edge	nmod

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

Option 3

beside a dark river bend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beside	beside	ADP	_	5 bend	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bend	det
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bend	amod
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bend	compound
5	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

in a deep forest glade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	5 glade	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 glade	det
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 glade	amod
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glade	compound
5	glade	glade	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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