Exam question 1 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the pri…
Which object did the fox formally forbid the prince to touch?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, fox · What happens: do, forbid, touch · To what, where: fox, prince
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1636 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the prince beheads the fox, then returns in disguise and wakes the bird» 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 | 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 | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | formally | formally | ADV | _ | 7 forbid | advmod |
| 7 | forbid | forbid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fox | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forbid | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 touch | mark |
| 11 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 prince | acl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | the fox | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | forbid | infinitive | the fox not said here | the prince | formally property | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer prince=Theme | |||
| 3 | touch | to-infinitive | the fox not said here | the prince not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
A whip
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 whip | det |
| 2 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The bridle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bridle | det |
| 2 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The golden saddle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 saddle | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saddle | amod |
| 3 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The iron bridle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bridle | det |
| 2 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bridle | amod |
| 3 | bridle | bridle | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1636-pg5615-part25/e1/