Exam question 1 · Household Stories, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 29: the d…

Which object did Snow-White employ to liberate the dwarf from the cleft tree?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, liberate · To what, where: White employ, dwarf, cleft tree

This is exam question 1 of lesson 126 «Household Stories, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 29: the dwarf is snagged three times, and the bear becomes a prince» 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 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 White	obl
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Snow	punct
6	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 employ	amod
7	employ	employ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 liberate	mark
9	liberate	liberate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 did	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dwarf	det
11	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 liberate	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 tree	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
14	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	compound
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 liberate	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	White employ					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality
2	liberate	to-infinitive	which object not said here	the dwarf		the cleft tree			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dwarf=Theme from tree=Source

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

Her hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hand	nmod:poss
2	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A sharp axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Her scissors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 scissors	nmod:poss
2	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Her needle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 needle	nmod:poss
2	needle	needle	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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