Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace…
With what article did the Queen attempt the second deception of Snowdrop?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: article, Queen · What happens: do, attempt, deceive · To what, where: second deception, Snowdrop
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1578 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace and the poisonous comb» 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 attempt | obl |
| 3 | article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 attempt | nsubj |
| 7 | attempt | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 deception | det |
| 9 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 deception | amod |
| 10 | deception | deception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attempt | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Snowdrop | case |
| 12 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 deception | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 attempt | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | article | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | attempt | present | the Queen | the second deception of Snowdrop | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deception=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | deceive | Snowdrop | nom deception «communication 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
a comb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 comb | det |
| 2 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a poisonous cup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cup | det |
| 2 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cup | amod |
| 3 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a poisonous comb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 comb | det |
| 2 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 comb | amod |
| 3 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a poisonous comb carved from bone and set with pins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 comb | det |
| 2 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 comb | amod |
| 3 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 comb | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 bone | case |
| 6 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carved | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 set | cc |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 carved | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 pins | case |
| 10 | pins | pin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 set | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | participle | a poisonous comb not said here | bone | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | with pins | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with pin=Instrument |
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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