Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and…

State the magic rhyme by which Little Two-eyes summons the table in the passage.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: State, Little Two eyes · What happens: summon, rhyme · To what, where: table, passage

This is exam question 4 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 summons	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rhyme	det
3	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rhyme	amod
4	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 summons	nsubj
5	by	by	ADP	_	10 eyes	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 eyes	nsubj
7	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 eyes	amod
8	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 eyes	nummod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Two	punct
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rhyme	nmod
11	summons	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 table	det
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 summons	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 passage	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 passage	det
16	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 table	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 summons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	summon	present	State	the table		the passage			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Recipient
2	rhyme		Little Two eyes						nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: by=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

Bleat little goat, table appear quickly here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bleat	bleat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goat	amod
3	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appear	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 table	punct
5	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goat	conj
6	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Bleat	conj
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	6 appear	advmod
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 appear	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bleat	imperative	you not said here						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	appear	present	little goat and table			here		quickly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Little goat, bleat, Little table, appear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 goat	amod
2	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 appear	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bleat	punct
4	bleat	bleat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goat	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 table	punct
6	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 table	amod
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goat	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 goat	punct
9	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	present	Little goat and bleat and Little table						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Little goat, bleat, Little table, come to me

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 goat	amod
2	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bleat	punct
4	bleat	bleat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goat	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 table	punct
6	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 table	amod
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goat	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 goat	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive			me				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Little table, come out now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 table	amod
2	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 table	punct
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	infinitive	Little table				now	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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