Exam question 2 · Grimm's Household Tales, Little One-Eye, Two-Eyes and Thre…

Which foodstuff did the magic table provide to the maiden upon her request?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: foodstuff · What happens: provide, request · To what, where: maiden

This is exam question 2 of lesson 129 «Grimm's Household Tales, Little One-Eye, Two-Eyes and Three-Eyes, part 1: the Queen learns the Dwarf's name, then Two-Eyes finds a magic table and loses her goat» 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 foodstuff	det
2	foodstuff	foodstuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 provide	nsubj:outer
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 provide	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 table	det
5	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 table	compound
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 provide	nsubj
7	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 maiden	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 maiden	det
10	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 provide	obl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 request	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 request	nmod:poss
13	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 provide	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 provide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provide	past · do-support	which foodstuff		the maiden			upon foodstuff's request	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to maiden=Recipient
2	request		foodstuff						nom request «communication 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

Pies and dumplings, warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 dumplings	cc
3	dumplings	dumpling	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pies	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 warm	punct
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pies	conj

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

Option 2

Roast chicken, served hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chicken	compound
2	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 served	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 chicken	punct
4	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 served	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	past	Roast chicken					hot property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Delicate dishes served warm, with a silver spoon and fresh bread on the side

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dishes	amod
2	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dishes	acl
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 served	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spoon	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 spoon	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 spoon	det
8	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spoon	compound
9	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dishes	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bread	cc
11	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bread	amod
12	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spoon	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 side	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 side	det
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dishes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	participle		Delicate dishes on the side and a silver spoon and fresh bread not said here				warm property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Delicate dishes served warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dishes	amod
2	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dishes	acl
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 served	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	participle		Delicate dishes not said here				warm property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

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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