Exam question 1 · Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

Which of the following objects did the youth request from the King prior to his nightly vigil?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, do · To what, where: youth request

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1435 «Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 22: he keeps watch in the haunted castle, fights the animals, and survives the runaway bed» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 did	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 objects	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 objects	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 objects	amod
5	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 did	obl
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 request	det
8	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 request	compound
9	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 prior	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prior	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 prior	compound
13	prior	prior	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 request	nmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 vigil	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 vigil	nmod:poss
16	nightly	nightly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 vigil	amod
17	vigil	vigil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past		the youth request				of the following objects; from the King prior; to prior's nightly vigil	tree rules

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 fire, a turning lathe, a workbench and a stool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fire	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lathe	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lathe	det
5	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 lathe	amod
6	lathe	lathe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fire	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 workbench	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 workbench	det
9	workbench	workbench	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fire	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stool	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stool	det
12	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fire	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

A large fire, a lathe, a carving bench, and a bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fire	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fire	amod
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lathe	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lathe	det
6	lathe	lathe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fire	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bench	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bench	det
9	carving	carve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 bench	amod
10	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fire	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bed	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bed	det
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fire	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	gerund							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A fire, a lathe, and a stool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fire	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lathe	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lathe	det
5	lathe	lathe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fire	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fire	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stool	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stool	det
9	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fire	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A fire, a turning lathe, and a carving bench

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fire	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lathe	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lathe	det
5	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 lathe	amod
6	lathe	lathe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fire	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fire	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bench	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bench	det
10	carving	carve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 bench	amod
11	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fire	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	carve	gerund							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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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