Exam question 4 · Grimm's Tales, The Wind's Gift, part 6: the poor man wins…

State the price which the rich brother proposed in exchange for the ram and the sack.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: price · What happens: brother, propose · To what, where: rich brother, exchange

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1100 «Grimm's Tales, The Wind's Gift, part 6: the poor man wins back his sack and ram, and his rich brother buys them» 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 price	det
3	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	nmod
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 brother	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brother	det
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brother	amod
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 price	conj
8	proposed	propose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 brother	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 exchange	case
10	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 proposed	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 ram	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ram	det
13	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 exchange	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sack	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sack	det
16	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 exchange	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brother		the price and the rich brother						tree rules
2	propose	participle		the rich brother not said here		exchange for the ram and the sack			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

Six yoke of oxen, a plough, and corn, with his cart thrown in

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 yoke	nummod
2	yoke	yoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plough	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 oxen	case
4	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 yoke	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 plough	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 plough	det
7	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 corn	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 corn	cc
10	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plough	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cart	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 cart	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cart	nmod:poss
14	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plough	conj
15	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 cart	acl
16	in	in	ADP	_	15 thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	participle		yoke's cart not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Six yoke of oxen, a plough, and corn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 yoke	nummod
2	yoke	yoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 oxen	case
4	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 yoke	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 plough	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 plough	det
7	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yoke	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 corn	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 corn	cc
10	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yoke	conj

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

Option 3

Four yoke of oxen, a cart, and rye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 yoke	nummod
2	yoke	yoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 oxen	case
4	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 yoke	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cart	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cart	det
7	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yoke	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rye	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rye	cc
10	rye	rye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yoke	conj

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

Option 4

Five yoke of oxen and some barley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 yoke	nummod
2	yoke	yoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 oxen	case
4	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 yoke	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 barley	cc
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 barley	det
7	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 oxen	conj

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

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