Exam question 2 · Grimm's Tales, Two-Eyes, the silver tree and the golden ap…

With reference to the text, determine the reason the youngest sister rolled a golden apple toward the Knight's feet.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, youngest sister · What happens: determine, roll · To what, where: reason, golden apple, feet

This is exam question 2 of lesson 130 «Grimm's Tales, Two-Eyes, the silver tree and the golden apples: the Knight marries Two-Eyes and her sisters come begging» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 determine	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 text	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct
7	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reason	det
9	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 determine	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sister	det
11	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 sister	amod
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rolled	nsubj
13	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 reason	acl:relcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 apple	det
15	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 apple	amod
16	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rolled	obj
17	toward	toward	ADP	_	21 feet	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Knight	det
19	Knight	Knight	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 feet	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 Knight	case
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rolled	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the reason				with reference to the text	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic
2	roll	past	the youngest sister	a golden apple		the Knight's feet			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent apple=Theme toward foot=Trajectory

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

To please the Knight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 please	mark
2	please	please	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Knight	det
4	Knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 please	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	please	to-infinitive		the Knight					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus knight=Experiencer

Option 2

Because she was angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 angry	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	cop
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					angry property	tree rules

Option 3

Because the Knight commanded her to show him the golden fruit of the magic tree

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 commanded	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Knight	det
3	Knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 commanded	nsubj
4	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 commanded	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 show	mark
7	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 commanded	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 show	iobj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fruit	det
10	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fruit	amod
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 show	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 tree	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
14	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	compound
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fruit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	command	past	the Knight	her = she					vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	show	to-infinitive	the Knight not said here	the golden fruit of the magic tree	Knight				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient fruit=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Because her sisters had not spoken the truth regarding the tree's ownership

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 spoken	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sisters	nmod:poss
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spoken	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spoken	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 spoken	advmod
6	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 truth	det
8	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoken	obj
9	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 ownership	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ownership	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 tree	case
13	ownership	ownership	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		her sisters				regard the tree's ownership	tree rules
2	regard	gerund							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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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