Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 24: the water…

By what means did the King attempt to dispose of the Six within the iron chamber?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, do, dispose · To what, where: King attempt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 attempt	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 attempt	compound
7	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 dispose	mark
9	dispose	dispose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 attempt	acl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Six	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Six	det
12	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 dispose	obl
13	within	within	ADP	_	16 chamber	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 chamber	det
15	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 chamber	amod
16	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dispose	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past	the King attempt		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Eventuality
3	dispose	to-infinitive	the King attempt not said here	of the Six; within the iron chamber	vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

By freezing it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 freezing	mark
2	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 freezing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	gerund		it					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result

Option 2

By locking it up tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 locking	mark
2	locking	lock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 locking	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 locking	compound:prt
5	tight	tight	ADV	_	2 locking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock up	gerund		it				tight property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

With a big fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	4 fire	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fire	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fire	amod
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

By heating it with a large fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 heating	mark
2	heating	heat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heating	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 fire	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fire	det
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fire	amod
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	gerund		it				with a large fire	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with fire=Instrument

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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