Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 63: the false br…

Upon what grounds did the false bride request the execution of the faithful horse Falada?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: ground, do, request, execute · To what, where: false bride, execution, faithful horse

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1476 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 63: the false bride takes the princess's place and is found out» 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	_	3 grounds	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 grounds	nsubj
3	grounds	ground	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 request	advcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grounds	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bride	det
6	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bride	amod
7	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	request	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 execution	det
10	execution	execution	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 request	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 horse	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horse	det
13	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 horse	amod
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 execution	nmod
15	Falada	Falada	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 horse	appos
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 request	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	ground	present		tree rules
2	do	past	the false bride	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Eventuality
3	request	present	the execution of the faithful horse	vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent execution=Recipient
4	execute		the faithful horse	nom execution «act transitive»: of=patient

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

upon a claim that the horse had been stolen from the royal stable by the goose-girl

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	upon	upon	ADP	_	3 claim	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 claim	det
3	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 stolen	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stolen	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stolen	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 stolen	aux:pass
9	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 claim	acl
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 stable	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stable	det
12	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stable	amod
13	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stolen	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	18 girl	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 girl	det
16	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 girl	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 goose	punct
18	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stolen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past · perfect · passive	the goose girl	the horse		the royal stable			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from stable=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

upon a claim of ill conduct on the journey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	upon	upon	ADP	_	3 claim	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 claim	det
3	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 conduct	case
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 conduct	amod
6	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 claim	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 journey	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 journey	det
9	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conduct	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim			ill conduct on the journey					nom claim «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

on a charge of stubbornness on the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 charge	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 charge	det
3	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 stubbornness	case
5	stubbornness	stubbornness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 charge	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 charge	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge			stubbornness		the road			nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient on=place

Option 4

for disobedience during the ride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 disobedience	case
2	disobedience	disobedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	during	during	ADP	_	5 ride	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ride	det
5	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 disobedience	nmod

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

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