Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Sisters: the youngest daugh…

Which seed did the woodcutter scatter upon the path for his youngest daughter, in order to guide her return?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: seed, woodcutter, her · What happens: do, scatter, guide, return · To what, where: path, return

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1615 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Sisters: the youngest daughter feeds the beasts and breaks the witch's spell» 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 seed	det
2	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woodcutter	det
5	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scatter	nsubj
6	scatter	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 path	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 path	det
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scatter	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 daughter	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughter	nmod:poss
12	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 daughter	amod
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scatter	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 guide	punct
15	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 guide	mark
16	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 in	fixed
17	to	to	PART	_	18 guide	mark
18	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 scatter	advcl
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 return	nmod:poss
20	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 guide	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	which seed				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	scatter	present	the woodcutter		the path	for woodcutter's youngest daughter	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme upon path=Destination
3	guide	to-infinitive	the woodcutter not said here	her return			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent return=Theme
4	return		her = she				nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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

peas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

rye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rye	rye	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

green garden peas along the path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 peas	amod
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 peas	compound
3	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	along	along	ADP	_	6 path	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 path	det
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 peas	nmod

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

Option 4

oat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	oat	oat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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