Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and…

Select the option that correctly identifies the wise woman's role in the narrative at this point.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, option · What happens: select, identify · To what, where: option, role, narrative

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1921 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, part 58: the sisters spy on the goat's magic table, and the mother kills the goat» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 option	det
3	option	option	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 identifies	nsubj
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	6 identifies	advmod
6	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 option	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 role	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 woman	case
11	role	role	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 narrative	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 narrative	det
14	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 point	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 point	det
17	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the option					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent option=Theme
2	identify	present	the option	the wise woman's role		the narrative		at this point; correctly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent role=Theme

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

She returns to help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 returns	nsubj
2	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 help	mark
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 returns	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	present	She						tree rules
2	help	to-infinitive	She not said here						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She returns to counsel Little Two-eyes after the goat's death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 returns	nsubj
2	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 counsel	mark
4	counsel	counsel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 returns	xcomp
5	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eyes	amod
6	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 eyes	nummod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Two	punct
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 counsel	obj
9	after	after	ADP	_	13 death	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 goat	det
11	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 death	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 goat	case
13	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 counsel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	return	present	She			tree rules
2	counsel speech: other	to-infinitive	She not said here	Little Two eyes	after the goat's death	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent eye=Recipient
3	die		the goat			nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

She comes back to visit the family and to scold the mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 comes	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 visit	mark
5	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 comes	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 family	det
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visit	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 scold	cc
9	to	to	PART	_	10 scold	mark
10	scold	scold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 visit	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mother	det
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come back	present	She		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	visit	to-infinitive	She not said here	the family	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Co-Agent
3	scold	to-infinitive	She not said here	the mother	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She returns to speak with the mother about the magic table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 returns	nsubj
2	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 speak	mark
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 returns	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 mother	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mother	det
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 speak	obl
8	about	about	ADP	_	11 table	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 table	det
10	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 table	compound
11	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mother	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	present	She						tree rules
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	She not said here					with the mother about the magic table	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mother=Co-Agent

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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