Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Bird Grip, part 24: the youngest…

Which object was the prince required to obtain in the final task described in this part?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: be, require, obtain, describe · To what, where: prince, final task, part

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prince	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prince	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 prince	acl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 obtain	mark
8	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 required	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 task	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 task	det
11	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 task	amod
12	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 obtain	obl
13	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 task	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 part	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 part	det
16	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 described	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 prince	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	which object	the prince		tree rules
2	require	participle		the prince not said here		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
3	obtain	to-infinitive			the final task	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	describe	participle		the final task not said here	this part	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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

The golden bird in the cage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cage	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cage	det
6	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bird	nmod

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

Option 2

The silver horse in the stable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 horse	compound
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 stable	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stable	det
6	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 horse	nmod

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

Option 3

The magnificent horse bearing four golden shoes that stands in the royal stable beside the princess's tower

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stands	nsubj
4	bearing	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 horse	acl
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 shoes	nummod
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shoes	amod
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bearing	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 stands	nsubj
9	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 stable	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stable	det
12	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stable	amod
13	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stands	obl
14	beside	beside	ADP	_	18 tower	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 princess	det
16	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tower	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 princess	case
18	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stable	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	gerund	the magnificent horse not said here	four golden shoes					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient
2	stand	present	the magnificent horse			the royal stable beside the princess's tower			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stable=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The horse bearing four golden shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	bearing	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 horse	acl
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 shoes	nummod
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shoes	amod
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bearing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	gerund	the horse not said here	four golden shoes					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient

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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