Exam question 3 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stove, part 1: the princ…
Which of the following best describes the king's response to the stove's demands?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stove · What happens: follow, describe, demand · To what, where: response
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1685 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stove, part 1: the princess promises help and loses her way home» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 describes | obj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 best | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 best | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 best | case |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 describes | nmod |
| 6 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 response | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 describes | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 demands | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stove | det |
| 13 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 demands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 stove | case |
| 15 | demands | demand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 response | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 describes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | describe | present | the king's response | of the best; to the stove's demands | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | demand | the stove | nom demand «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice
He abandoned his kingdom to the witch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 abandoned | nsubj |
| 2 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 4 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 abandoned | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 witch | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 witch | det |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 abandoned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abandon | past | He | his kingdom | the witch | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme kingdom=Source to witch=Destination |
Option 2
He offered his crown to the miller's daughter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 offered | nsubj |
| 2 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 crown | nmod:poss |
| 4 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 offered | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 daughter | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 miller | det |
| 7 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 miller | case |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 offered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | He | his crown | the miller's daughter | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent crown=Theme to daughter=Goal | |||
| 2 | crown | his = he | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
He consulted with his daughter and sent a substitute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 consulted | nsubj |
| 2 | consulted | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 daughter | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 consulted | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sent | cc |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 consulted | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 substitute | det |
| 9 | substitute | substitute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consult | past | He | with his daughter | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with daughter=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | send | past | He not said here | a substitute | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent substitute=Theme |
Option 4
He demanded that the stove be destroyed immediately
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 demanded | nsubj |
| 2 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 destroyed | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stove | det |
| 5 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 7 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 demanded | advcl |
| 8 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 7 destroyed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | past | He | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | destroy | infinitive · passive | the stove | immediately property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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