Exam question 1 · Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, part 1: t…

By what stratagem does the shoemaker effect his release from the sack?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stratagem · What happens: do · To what, where: shoemaker effect

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1640 «Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, part 1: the servant finds soft hands, and the old bride is flung out» 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	root	root
3	stratagem	stratagem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 effect	det
6	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 effect	compound
7	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 release	nmod:poss
9	release	release	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 effect	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 sack	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sack	det
12	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 release	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	stratagem	the shoemaker effect and stratagem's release from the sack					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Eventuality

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

By persuading the swineherd to take his place in the sack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 persuading	mark
2	persuading	persuade	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 swineherd	det
4	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 persuading	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 persuading	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 place	nmod:poss
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 sack	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sack	det
11	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	persuade	gerund		the swineherd					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swineherd=Patient
2	take	to-infinitive		his place		the sack			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in sack=Location

Option 2

By trading places with the captain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 places	case
2	trading	trading	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 places	compound
3	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 captain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 captain	det
6	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 places	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By substituting the swineherd in his place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 substituting	mark
2	substituting	substitute	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 swineherd	det
4	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 substituting	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 place	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 place	nmod:poss
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 substituting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	substitute	gerund		the swineherd		his place			vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Theme swineherd=Location

Option 4

By convincing the robber captain to release him at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 convincing	mark
2	convincing	convince	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 captain	det
4	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 captain	compound
5	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 convincing	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 release	mark
7	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 captain	acl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 release	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 release	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convince	gerund		the robber captain					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus captain=Experiencer
2	release	to-infinitive		him = he					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer he=Source

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/1640-pg5615-part29/e1/