Exam question 3 · Grimm, Rapunzel, part 25: Rapunzel is cast out and the bli…

Which object does the enchantress employ in order to sever Rapunzel's braids?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, sever · To what, where: enchantress employ, braids

This is exam question 3 of lesson 122 «Grimm, Rapunzel, part 25: Rapunzel is cast out and the blinded prince finds her; a girl meets Mother Holle» 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 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 employ	det
5	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employ	compound
6	employ	employ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
7	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 sever	mark
8	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 in	fixed
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sever	mark
10	sever	sever	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 employ	acl
11	Rapunzel	Rapunzel	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 braids	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Rapunzel	case
13	braids	braid	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sever	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	which object	the enchantress employ					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality
2	sever	to-infinitive	which object not said here	Rapunzel's braids					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent braid=Theme

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 heavy iron axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 axe	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 axe	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 axe	compound
4	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A pair of scissors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pair	det
2	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 scissors	case
4	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pair	nmod

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

Option 3

Shears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shears	shear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

A knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	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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