Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 1: on the road t…

State the purpose for which the princess's mother cut her fingers and bound the rag with three drops of blood.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mother · What happens: cut, bound · To what, where: State, rag

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1475 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 1: on the road to the wedding, the maid takes the princess's place» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 purpose	det
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	nmod:unmarked
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 cut	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mother	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 princess	case
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	nsubj
10	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 fingers	nmod:poss
12	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cut	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bound	cc
14	bound	bound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cut	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rag	det
16	rag	rag	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bound	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 drops	case
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 drops	nummod
19	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bound	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 blood	case
21	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drops	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	the princess's mother	State the purpose					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent finger=Product for which=Asset
2	bound	infinitive	the princess's mother not said here	the rag				with three drops of blood	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location rag=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 · ✓ the right answer

To provide a token of protection for her daughter during the journey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 provide	mark
2	provide	provide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 token	det
4	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 provide	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 protection	case
6	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 token	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 daughter	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 daughter	nmod:poss
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 provide	obl
10	during	during	ADP	_	12 journey	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 journey	det
12	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 provide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provide	to-infinitive		a token of protection			during the journey	for her daughter	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition token=Theme for daughter=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To give the princess a gift for her wedding feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gift	det
6	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 feast	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feast	nmod:poss
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feast	compound
10	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	to-infinitive		a gift	the princess			for princess's wedding feast	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient gift=Theme for feast=Asset

Option 3

To provide a magical token of protection for her daughter so the maid could never harm her on the journey

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 provide	mark
2	provide	provide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 token	det
4	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 token	amod
5	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 provide	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 protection	case
7	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 token	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 daughter	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 daughter	nmod:poss
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 provide	obl
11	so	so	SCONJ	_	16 harm	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 maid	det
13	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 harm	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 harm	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 harm	advmod
16	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 provide	advcl
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 harm	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 journey	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 journey	det
20	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 harm	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provide	to-infinitive		a magical token of protection				for her daughter	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition token=Theme for daughter=Beneficiary
2	not harm	could	the maid	her = she		the journey			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

Option 4

To send a message to the dwarf about her needs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 send	mark
2	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 message	det
4	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 send	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 dwarf	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dwarf	det
7	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 send	obl
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 needs	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 needs	nmod:poss
10	needs	need	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 send	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	to-infinitive		a message	the dwarf			about dwarf's needs	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to dwarf=Destination
2	need		dwarf						nom need «state transitive»: poss=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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