Exam question 1 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab…
Which daughter did the Crab wish to marry, according to the message conveyed to the King?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: daughter · What happens: do, marry, accord, convey · To what, where: Crab wish, message
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1684 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab builds a wall and garden, then his secret is betrayed» 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 daughter | det |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | 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 | 6 wish | det |
| 5 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wish | compound |
| 6 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 marry | mark |
| 8 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wish | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 message | punct |
| 10 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 message | case |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 according | fixed |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 message | det |
| 13 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | conj |
| 14 | conveyed | convey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 message | acl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 King | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 conveyed | obl:agent |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which daughter | the Crab wish | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | marry | to-infinitive | which daughter not said here | the Crab wish not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | convey | participle | the message not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 right answer
The younger daughter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 daughter | det |
| 2 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 daughter | amod |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The elder daughter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 daughter | det |
| 2 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 daughter | amod |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The queen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The youngest prince
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | 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.
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