Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: the princess sleeps with…
Which of the following individuals provided the King with a ball of cotton that revealed the path?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ball · What happens: follow, provide, reveal · To what, where: King, path
This is exam question 4 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 | 6 provided | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 individuals | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 individuals | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 individuals | amod |
| 5 | individuals | individual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 provided | nsubj |
| 6 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 provided | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 ball | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ball | det |
| 11 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 provided | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cotton | case |
| 13 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ball | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 revealed | nsubj |
| 15 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ball | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 path | det |
| 17 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 revealed | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 provided | 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 | provide | past | the King | with a ball of cotton | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent king=Recipient with ball=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reveal | past | a ball of cotton | the path | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Topic |
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
A wise woman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
An old beggar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 beggar | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beggar | amod |
| 3 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A passing girl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | passing | passing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 girl | compound |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
An old and wise woman who lived in a hut nearby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wise | cc |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 old | conj |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 woman | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hut | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hut | det |
| 10 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 11 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 7 lived | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a old woman | a hut | nearby property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location |
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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