Exam question 4 · Grimm, Rumpelstiltskin, part 1: the youth ends his trial,…

Of what substance did the manikin produce the bobbins on each occasion of spinning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: manikin, occasion · What happens: produce, spin · To what, where: bobbins, occasion

This is exam question 4 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 produce	obl
3	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 produce	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 manikin	det
6	manikin	manikin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 produce	nsubj
7	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bobbins	det
9	bobbins	bobbin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 produce	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 occasion	case
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 occasion	det
12	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 produce	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 spinning	case
14	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 occasion	acl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 produce	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	produce	past · do-support	the manikin	the bobbins		each occasion			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bobbin=Result
2	spin	gerund	each occasion not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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

Silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Tin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Ore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ore	ore	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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