Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 24: the water…
Which of the Six servants caused the frost that disabled the King's heating apparatus?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: frost · What happens: cause, disable · To what, where: frost, heating apparatus
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1700 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 24: the water race, the sleeping runner, and the King's iron room» 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 caused | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 servants | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 servants | det |
| 4 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 servants | nummod |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 caused | nsubj |
| 6 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 frost | det |
| 8 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caused | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 disabled | nsubj |
| 10 | disabled | disable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 frost | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 apparatus | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 King | case |
| 14 | heating | heating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 apparatus | compound |
| 15 | apparatus | apparatus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 disabled | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 caused | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | the frost | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition frost=Patient | |||||
| 2 | disable | past | the frost | the King's heating apparatus | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent apparatus=Patient |
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 man with the sack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 sack | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sack | det |
| 5 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The man in the little hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hat | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hat | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hat | amod |
| 6 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The man in the great hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hat | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hat | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hat | amod |
| 6 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The man in the little hat with frost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hat | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hat | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hat | amod |
| 6 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | nmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 frost | case |
| 8 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hat | 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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