Exam question 4 · Grimm's Tales, Cinderella, part 17: Cinderella goes to the…
Specify the object that remained behind upon the stair and became the instrument by which the prince sought his bride.
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, object, prince · What happens: specify, remain, become, seek · To what, where: object, stair, instrument, bride
This is exam question 4 of lesson 114 «Grimm's Tales, Cinderella, part 17: Cinderella goes to the feast three times, loses a golden slipper, and the prince seeks his bride; the old king makes faithful John promise to guard his son» 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 | Specify | specify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 object | det |
| 3 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Specify | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 remained | nsubj |
| 5 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 object | acl:relcl |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 5 remained | advmod |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 stair | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stair | det |
| 9 | stair | stair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remained | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 became | cc |
| 11 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remained | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 instrument | det |
| 13 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 became | xcomp |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 sought | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prince | det |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sought | nsubj |
| 18 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 instrument | acl:relcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bride | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sought | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Specify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | specify | imperative | you not said here | the object | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | the object | the stair | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon stair=Location | |||
| 3 | become | past | the object not said here | the instrument | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | seek | past | the prince | prince's bride | by the instrument | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bride=Theme by which=Location |
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 left shoe.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shoe | det |
| 2 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shoe | amod |
| 3 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shoe | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The right golden slipper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 slipper | det |
| 2 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 slipper | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 slipper | amod |
| 4 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A golden shoe.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shoe | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shoe | amod |
| 3 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shoe | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The left golden slipper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 slipper | det |
| 2 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 slipper | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 slipper | amod |
| 4 | slipper | slipper | 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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