Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace…

What was the occupation of the seven Dwarfs in the mountain?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: occupation · What happens: be, occupy · To what, where: seven Dwarfs, mountain

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 occupation	det
4	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 Dwarfs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Dwarfs	det
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 Dwarfs	nummod
8	Dwarfs	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 occupation	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 mountain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mountain	det
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 occupation	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the occupation of the seven Dwarfs in the mountain						tree rules
2	occupy			the seven Dwarfs		the mountain			nom occupation «act transitive»: of=patient in=place

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

they cut the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wood	det
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present	they	the wood					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

they dug tunnels all day long searching for precious gems and iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dug	nsubj
2	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dug	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dug	obl:unmarked
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 dug	advmod
7	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 dug	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 gems	case
9	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gems	amod
10	gems	gem	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 searching	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 iron	cc
12	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gems	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	past	they	tunnels			day	long property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tunnel=Theme
2	search	gerund	they not said here					for precious gems and iron	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for gem=Theme

Option 3

they dug deep in the mountain mines for silver and gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dug	nsubj
2	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	deep	deep	ADV	_	2 dug	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 mines	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mines	det
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mines	compound
7	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dug	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 silver	case
9	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mines	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gold	cc
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 silver	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	past	they			the mountain mines for silver and gold		deep property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in mine=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they dug for gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dug	nsubj
2	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 gold	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dug	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	past	they					for gold	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for gold=Theme

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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