Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Princ…
Which object did the Dwarf provide to enable the Prince's entry into the enchanted castle?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, Dwarf, Prince · What happens: do, provide, enable, enchant, enter · To what, where: entry, enchanted castle
This is exam question 1 of lesson 117 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Prince is betrayed, spared, and forgiven» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | 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 | 5 Dwarf | det |
| 5 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 provide | nsubj |
| 6 | provide | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 enable | mark |
| 8 | enable | enable | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 provide | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 entry | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Prince | case |
| 12 | entry | entry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enable | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 castle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 castle | det |
| 15 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 castle | amod |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enable | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | provide | present | the Dwarf | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | enable | to-infinitive | the Dwarf not said here | the Prince's entry | the enchanted castle | tree rules | |||
| 4 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | enter | the Prince | nom entry «communication transitive»: poss=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
an iron rod and a magic lantern
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rod | det |
| 2 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rod | amod |
| 3 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lantern | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lantern | det |
| 6 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lantern | amod |
| 7 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rod | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a golden staff
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 staff | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 staff | amod |
| 3 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a silver bell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bell | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bell | compound |
| 3 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
an iron rod
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rod | det |
| 2 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rod | amod |
| 3 | rod | rod | 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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