Exam question 3 · Grimm, Rumpelstiltskin, part 1: the youth ends his trial,…

What object did the miller's daughter surrender to the manikin in return for the second spinning?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: object, miller · What happens: do, surrender · To what, where: daughter surrender

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1436 «Grimm, Rumpelstiltskin, part 1: the youth ends his trial, and the miller's daughter must spin gold for the King» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 miller	det
5	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 surrender	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 miller	case
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 surrender	compound
8	surrender	surrender	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 manikin	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 manikin	det
11	manikin	manikin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 return	case
13	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 manikin	nmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 spinning	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spinning	det
16	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 spinning	amod
17	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 return	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	object	the miller's daughter surrender				to the manikin in return for the second spinning	tree rules
2	surrender		the miller						nom surrender «feeling 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

The bracelet from her arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bracelet	det
2	bracelet	bracelet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 arm	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 arm	nmod:poss
5	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bracelet	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The ring from her finger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ring	det
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 finger	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 finger	nmod:poss
5	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ring	nmod

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

Option 3

Her silver necklace

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	3 necklace	nmod:poss
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 necklace	amod
3	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Her ring

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 ring	nmod:poss
2	ring	ring	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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