Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the bread house an…

What was the nature of the bird that guided the children to the dwelling?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nature, bird · What happens: be, guide · To what, where: children, dwelling

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nature	det
4	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bird	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nature	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 guided	nsubj
9	guided	guide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 children	det
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 guided	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 dwelling	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dwelling	det
14	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 guided	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the nature of the bird						tree rules
2	guide	past	the bird	the children		the dwelling			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to dwelling=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

A snow-white bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 white	obl
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 snow	punct
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A black raven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 raven	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 raven	amod
3	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A crow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crow	det
2	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A robin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 robin	det
2	robin	robin	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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