Exam question 3 · Grimm's Tales, The Salad, part 12: the Hunter punishes the…

State the penalty assigned by the Hunter to the old donkey, the former witch.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, assign · To what, where: penalty, old donkey

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1688 «Grimm's Tales, The Salad, part 12: the Hunter punishes the faithless trio with magic cabbage» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 penalty	det
3	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	assigned	assign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 penalty	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 Hunter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Hunter	det
7	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 assigned	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 donkey	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 donkey	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 donkey	amod
11	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 assigned	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 witch	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 witch	det
14	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 witch	amod
15	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 donkey	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the penalty					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent penalty=Topic
2	assign	participle		the penalty not said here	the old donkey and the former witch			by the Hunter	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to donkey=Goal

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

Three hard beatings at the mill and only one small meal to eat afterwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 beatings	nummod
2	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beatings	amod
3	beatings	beating	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 mill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mill	det
6	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beatings	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 meal	cc
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 meal	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 meal	nummod
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 meal	amod
11	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beatings	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 eat	mark
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 meal	acl
14	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	13 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive						afterwards property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Two beatings and one meal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 beatings	nummod
2	beatings	beating	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 meal	cc
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 meal	nummod
5	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beatings	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Three beatings and one meal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 beatings	nummod
2	beatings	beating	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 meal	cc
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 meal	nummod
5	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beatings	conj

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

Option 4

Three beatings and one meal each day for the rest of her donkey life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 beatings	nummod
2	beatings	beating	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 meal	cc
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 meal	nummod
5	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beatings	conj
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beatings	nmod:unmarked
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 rest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rest	det
10	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 day	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 life	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 life	nmod:poss
13	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 life	compound
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rest	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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