Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 32: the new he…
What is the stated limit of the dowry the king is prepared to bestow upon his daughter?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stated limit · What happens: be, state, prepare, bestow · To what, where: king
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1643 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 32: the new helpers join the ship and the king's fleet is blinded by fog» 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 | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 limit | det |
| 4 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 limit | amod |
| 5 | limit | limit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 dowry | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dowry | det |
| 8 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 limit | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prepared | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 prepared | aux:pass |
| 12 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 dowry | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 bestow | mark |
| 14 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 prepared | xcomp |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 daughter | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bestow | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the stated limit of the dowry | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | state speech: other | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | prepare | present · passive | the king | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | bestow not said to happen | to-infinitive | upon king's daughter | tree rules |
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 right answer
The quantity that a single man is able to carry away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 quantity | det |
| 2 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 able | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 able | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 able | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 able | cop |
| 8 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 carry | mark |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | xcomp |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 carry | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the quantity | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry away | to-infinitive | the quantity not said here | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
The quantity that a single man is able to carry away, and no more than that on any given day
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 quantity | det |
| 2 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 able | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 able | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 able | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 able | cop |
| 8 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 carry | mark |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | xcomp |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 carry | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 more | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 more | cc |
| 14 | no | no | ADV | _ | 15 more | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 able | conj |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 more | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 day | case |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 day | det |
| 20 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 day | amod |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 more | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the quantity | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry away | to-infinitive | the quantity not said here | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not be | the quantity not said here | day | than that | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Whatever a horse can pull in a day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 pull | obj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pull | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pull | aux |
| 5 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pull | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | can | a horse | Whatever | day | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme |
Option 4
The amount one strong man could haul on his back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 amount | det |
| 2 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 haul | nsubj |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 man | nummod |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 amount | nmod |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 haul | aux |
| 7 | haul | haul | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 back | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 back | nmod:poss |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 haul | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haul | could | the amount one strong man | amount's back | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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