Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 14: the Wolf i…

By what method does Dummerly obtain the golden goose?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: method · What happens: obtain · To what, where: golden goose

This is exam question 3 of lesson 111 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 14: the Wolf is caught and Little Red-Cap is eaten, then Dummerly finds a golden goose» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 obtain	obl
3	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 obtain	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 obtain	aux
5	Dummerly	Dummerly	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 obtain	nsubj
6	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 goose	det
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 goose	amod
9	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 obtain	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 obtain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obtain	present · do-support	method	the golden goose					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset goose=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

He cuts down an old tree as instructed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cuts	nsubj
2	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 cuts	compound:prt
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tree	amod
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cuts	obj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 instructed	mark
8	instructed	instruct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cuts	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut down	present	He	a old tree					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product
2	instruct speech: other	participle	He not said here						vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He chops down a tree near the stream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chops	nsubj
2	chops	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 chops	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chops	obj
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 stream	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stream	det
8	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chops	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop down	present	He	a tree		the stream			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tree=Patient near stream=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He gets help from the little man to cut the root

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 man	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cut	mark
9	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gets	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 root	det
11	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	He	help				from the little man	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent help=Theme from man=Source
2	cut	to-infinitive	He not said here	the root					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset root=Product

Option 4

He follows a bird to the spot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 follows	nsubj
2	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 follows	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 spot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spot	det
7	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 follows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	He	a bird		the spot			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bird=Theme to spot=Trajectory

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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