Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 24: the water…

What object did the runner employ as a pillow while he slept during the race?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, sleep · To what, where: runner employ

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 slept	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 employ	det
5	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employ	compound
6	employ	employ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 pillow	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pillow	det
9	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 slept	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 slept	nsubj
12	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	during	during	ADP	_	15 race	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 race	det
15	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slept	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 slept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	object	the runner employ				as a pillow	tree rules
2	sleep	past	object				during the race		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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 empty jug he filled at the stream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jug	det
2	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jug	amod
3	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 filled	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 filled	nsubj
5	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 stream	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stream	det
8	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 filled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	past	the empty jug			the stream			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A horse's skull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skull	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 horse	case
4	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A log

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 log	det
2	log	log	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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