Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Bird Grip, part 24: the youngest…

What instruction did the fox give the prince concerning the princess?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: instruction, fox, prince · What happens: do, give, concern · To what, where: prince, princess

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1635 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Bird Grip, part 24: the youngest prince pays a murderous host, escapes, and meets the fox again» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 instruction	det
2	instruction	instruction	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 fox	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 prince	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	what instruction		tree rules
2	give	present	the fox	the prince	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme
3	concern	gerund	the prince not said here	the princess	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer

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

That he must never speak to her at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 speak	obl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 speak	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 speak	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 speak	advmod
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 speak	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	must	he	That	her = she	all			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That he should not kiss her under any circumstances

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 kiss	nsubj:outer
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kiss	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 kiss	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 kiss	advmod
5	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kiss	obj
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 circumstances	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 circumstances	det
9	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kiss	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not kiss	should	That	her = she		any circumstances			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent

Option 3

That he should give her the golden bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 give	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	should	That	the golden bird	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient bird=Theme

Option 4

That he should not kiss her under any circumstances, and that he must also not look at her face or tell her his name

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 kiss	nsubj:outer
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kiss	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 kiss	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 kiss	advmod
5	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kiss	obj
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 circumstances	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 circumstances	det
9	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kiss	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 look	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 look	cc
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 look	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 look	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 look	aux
15	also	also	ADV	_	17 look	advmod
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 look	advmod
17	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 kiss	parataxis
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 face	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 face	nmod:poss
20	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 look	obl
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 tell	cc
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 look	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tell	iobj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 name	nmod:poss
25	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not kiss	should	That	her = she		any circumstances		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
2	not look	must	he				at her face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	he not said here	his name	her = she			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient name=Topic
4	name		his = he					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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