Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the bread house an…

Upon entering the old woman's house, what did the children find in every corner of the room?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: children · What happens: enter, do, find · To what, where: house, corner

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1473 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the bread house and the oven» 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	Upon	upon	SCONJ	_	2 entering	mark
2	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 did	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 woman	case
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 entering	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 entering	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 children	det
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 find	nsubj
13	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 did	ccomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 corner	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 corner	det
16	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 room	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 room	det
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 corner	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	enter	gerund		the old woman's house		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination
2	do	past				tree rules
3	find	present	the children		every corner of the room	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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

Heaps of cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 cheese	case
3	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Heaps	nmod

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

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

Boxes of pearls and precious stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 pearls	case
3	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Boxes	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stones	cc
5	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stones	amod
6	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Boxes	conj

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

Option 3

Piles of old shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Piles	pile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 shoes	case
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shoes	amod
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Piles	nmod

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

Option 4

Chests of gold coins and rings from far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chests	chest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 coins	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 coins	case
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coins	compound
4	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rings	cc
6	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 coins	conj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 far	case
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 coins	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 far	advmod

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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