Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: the princess sleeps with…
Which of the following actions did the prince perform upon reaching the sleeping princess in the tower?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: follow, perform, reach, sleep · To what, where: sleeping princess, tower
This is exam question 1 of lesson 120 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: the princess sleeps with the whole palace until a prince's kiss wakes her» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 perform | obj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 actions | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 actions | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 actions | amod |
| 5 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 perform | obl |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 perform | aux |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 perform | nsubj |
| 9 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 11 reaching | mark |
| 11 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 perform | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 13 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 princess | amod |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reaching | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tower | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tower | det |
| 17 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reaching | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 perform | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | perform | past · do-support | the prince | of the following actions | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | gerund | the prince not said here | the sleeping princess | the tower | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | |||
| 4 | sleep | gerund | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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
He embraced her gently and wept
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 embraced | nsubj |
| 2 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 embraced | obj |
| 4 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 2 embraced | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wept | cc |
| 6 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 embraced | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past | He | her = she | gently property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | weep | past | He not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
He bestowed a kiss upon her brow
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 bestowed | nsubj |
| 2 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kiss | det |
| 4 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bestowed | obj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 brow | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brow | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bestowed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bestow | past | He | a kiss | upon her brow | tree rules |
Option 3
He bestowed a kiss upon her brow and then knelt beside her bed
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 bestowed | nsubj |
| 2 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kiss | det |
| 4 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bestowed | obj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 brow | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brow | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bestowed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 knelt | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 knelt | advmod |
| 10 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bestowed | conj |
| 11 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bed | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knelt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bestow | past | He | a kiss | upon her brow | tree rules | |||
| 2 | kneel | past | He not said here | her bed | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside bed=Location |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
He offered her a warm embrace
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 offered | nsubj |
| 2 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 offered | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 embrace | det |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 embrace | amod |
| 6 | embrace | embrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 offered | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | He | a warm embrace | her = she | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal embrace=Theme |
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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