Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: t…

What condition did the King attach to the grant of his daughter's hand?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: do, grant · To what, where: King attach, hand

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 attach	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 attach	compound
6	attach	attach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 grant	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grant	det
9	grant	grant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 hand	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 daughter	nmod:poss
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hand	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 daughter	case
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grant	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	what condition	the King attach				to the grant of condition's daughter's hand	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attach=Eventuality
2	grant			condition's daughter's hand					nom grant «possession transitive»: of=patient

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

two giants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 giants	nummod
2	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

the burning of a rich city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 burning	det
2	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 city	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 city	det
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 city	amod
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burning	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the slaying of two Giants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 slaying	det
2	slaying	slaying	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Giants	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 Giants	nummod
5	Giants	Giant	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 slaying	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slay			two Giants					nom slaying «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

giant slaying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 slaying	amod
2	slaying	slaying	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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