Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What F…

Which action does the youth perform upon the seven bodies once they fail to warm themselves by the fire?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: action, youth · What happens: do, perform, fail, not warm · To what, where: youth

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1434 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, part 21: the youth warms seven dead men and hangs them back up» 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 action	det
2	action	action	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	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 perform	nsubj
6	perform	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	ccomp
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 bodies	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bodies	det
9	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 bodies	nummod
10	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 perform	obl
11	once	once	SCONJ	_	13 fail	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fail	nsubj
13	fail	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 perform	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 warm	mark
15	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 fail	xcomp
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 warm	obj
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 fire	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fire	det
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 warm	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	which action			tree rules
2	perform	present	the youth		upon the seven bodies	vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fail	present	youth			vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	not warm	to-infinitive	youth not said here	youth	by the fire	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=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 · ✓ the right answer

He rehangs each of them upon the gallows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rehangs	nsubj
2	rehangs	rehang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 rehangs	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 each	nmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 gallows	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gallows	det
8	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rehangs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rehang	present	He	each				upon the gallows	tree rules

Option 2

He ties each of them back on the gallows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ties	nsubj
2	ties	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 ties	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 each	nmod
6	back	back	ADV	_	2 ties	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 gallows	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gallows	det
9	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ties	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	present	He	each				on the gallows	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent each=Patient on gallows=Co-Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He takes each of them down and hangs them again upon the gallows tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 takes	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 each	nmod
6	down	down	ADP	_	2 takes	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hangs	cc
8	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 takes	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hangs	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 hangs	advmod
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 tree	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
13	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tree	compound
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hangs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take down	present	He	each					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme
2	hang	present	He not said here	them = they		the gallows tree	again		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme upon tree=Destination

Option 4

He carries each of them into the woods and buries them under the gallows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carries	nsubj
2	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 carries	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 each	nmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 woods	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woods	det
8	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carries	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 buries	cc
10	buries	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 carries	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 buries	obj
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 gallows	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gallows	det
14	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 buries	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	He	each		the woods			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme
2	bury	present	He not said here	woods = wood		the gallows			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme under gallows=Destination

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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