Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Swans: the silent sister save…

In what manner was the wicked stepmother ultimately punished for her crimes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stepmother · What happens: be, punish, incriminate · To what, where: wicked stepmother, manner

This is exam question 2 of lesson 121 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Swans: the silent sister saves her brothers from the fire, and Rapunzel begins» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stepmother	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stepmother	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stepmother	det
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stepmother	amod
7	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	9 punished	advmod
9	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stepmother	acl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 crimes	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 crimes	nmod:poss
12	crimes	crime	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 punished	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 stepmother	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the wicked stepmother	what manner		tree rules
2	punish	participle		the wicked stepmother not said here		for stepmother's crimes; ultimately property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for crime=Theme
3	incriminate		stepmother				nom crime «act 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

Burned at the stake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 stake	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stake	det
4	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	participle				the stake			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at stake=Location

Option 2

She was hanged in the castle square

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hanged	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hanged	aux:pass
3	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 square	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 square	det
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 square	compound
7	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hanged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hange	past · passive		She		the castle square			tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She was bound to the stake and burnt to ashes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bound	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bound	aux:pass
3	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 stake	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stake	det
6	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bound	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 burnt	cc
8	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bound	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 ashes	case
10	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 burnt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bind	past · passive		She				to the stake	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to stake=Co-Patient
2	burnt	participle						to ashes	tree rules

Option 4

She was drowned in the deep river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drowned	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drowned	aux:pass
3	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 river	amod
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drowned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	past · passive		She		the deep river			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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