Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Swans: the silent sister save…

What was the precise duration of the vow of silence imposed upon the sister?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, impose, vow · To what, where: precise duration, silence

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 duration	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 duration	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 duration	det
4	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 duration	amod
5	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 vow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vow	det
8	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 duration	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 silence	case
10	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vow	nmod
11	imposed	impose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 silence	acl
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 sister	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sister	det
14	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 imposed	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 duration	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the precise duration	of the vow of silence	tree rules
2	impose	participle	silence not said here	upon the sister	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	vow		silence		nom vow «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

A year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Six years of silence and thread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 silence	case
4	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 thread	cc
6	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 silence	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Six years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Seven years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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