Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace…

By what means did the Dwarfs restore Snowdrop to consciousness?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dwarfs · What happens: mean, do, restore · To what, where: Snowdrop, consciousness

This is exam question 4 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Dwarfs	det
6	Dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 restore	nsubj
7	restore	restore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 restore	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 consciousness	case
10	consciousness	consciousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 restore	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	do	past				tree rules
3	restore	present	the Dwarfs	Snowdrop	consciousness	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent snowdrop=Theme to consciousness=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

they cut the lace in two

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 lace	det
4	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 two	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cut	obl

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

Option 2

they cut the tight silk lace in two and loosened it

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	6 lace	det
4	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lace	amod
5	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lace	compound
6	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 two	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 lace	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 loosened	cc
10	loosened	loosen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cut	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 loosened	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present	they	the tight silk lace		two			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lace=Product
2	loosen	past	they not said here	lace					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

they rang the bell and cut the lace in two right away

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 rang	nsubj
2	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bell	det
4	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rang	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cut	cc
6	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rang	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lace	det
8	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 two	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 cut	obl
11	right	right	ADV	_	12 away	advmod
12	away	away	ADV	_	2 rang	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	past	they	the bell				away property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme
2	cut	infinitive	they not said here	the lace		two			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lace=Product

Option 4

they tore the lace apart

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 tore	nsubj
2	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lace	det
4	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tore	obj
5	apart	apart	ADV	_	2 tore	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore	past	they	the lace				apart property	tree rules

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