Exam question 3 · Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, part 1: t…
On what object does the old woman's clothing become caught after the king casts her out?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object, king · What happens: do, catch, cast out · To what, where: clothing, object
This is exam question 3 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 does | mark |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 object | det |
| 3 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 caught | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clothing | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 woman | case |
| 9 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 10 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 caught | aux:pass |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 casts | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 casts | nsubj |
| 15 | casts | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 caught | advcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 casts | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 casts | compound:prt |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 caught | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | what object | the old woman's clothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | catch | present · passive | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 3 | cast out | present | the king | object | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product |
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
A nail projecting from the wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 nail | det |
| 2 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | projecting | project | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 nail | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 wall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wall | det |
| 6 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 projecting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | project | gerund | a nail not said here | the wall | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
A rusty bolt on the gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bolt | det |
| 2 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bolt | amod |
| 3 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 gate | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gate | det |
| 6 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bolt | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A nail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 nail | det |
| 2 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A branch of a nearby tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 branch | det |
| 2 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 5 | nearby | nearby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 branch | nmod |
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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