Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 71: t…

Which object did the tailor take from the house before departing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: take, depart · To what, where: house

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1484 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 71: the tailor tricks two giants and is offered a post by 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tailor	det
5	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 departing	mark
11	departing	depart	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 take	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · do-support	which object			the house			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from house=Initial_Location
2	depart	gerund	which object not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP 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 · ✓ the right answer

an old cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a hard loaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a dry cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

the wallet and the old cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wallet	det
2	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cheese	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cheese	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cheese	amod
6	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wallet	conj

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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