Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 71: t…

What was the principal outcome of the tailor's tree-carrying exploit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, carry · To what, where: principal outcome

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 outcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 outcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 outcome	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 outcome	amod
5	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	13 exploit	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tailor	det
8	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 exploit	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 tailor	case
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 exploit	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 tree	punct
12	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 exploit	amod
13	exploit	exploit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 outcome	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal outcome				of the tailor's tree carrying exploit	tree rules
2	carry	gerund							vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The giant was deceived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deceived	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 deceived	aux:pass
4	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deceive	past · passive		the giant					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

The tailor escaped the giant's rage entirely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tailor	det
2	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 escaped	nsubj
3	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rage	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 giant	case
7	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 escaped	obj
8	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	3 escaped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	past	the tailor	the giant's rage				entirely property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rage=Initial_Location
2	rage		the giant						nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

The tailor was caught

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tailor	det
2	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	aux:pass
4	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · passive		the tailor					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

The giant was tricked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tricked	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tricked	aux:pass
4	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past · passive		the giant					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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