Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Allerleirauh, part 60: Joringel wins…
What precondition did the deceased Queen impose upon the King regarding any subsequent marriage?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: precondition, deceased Queen · What happens: do, decease, impose, regard
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1923 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Allerleirauh, part 60: Joringel wins back Jorinde, and the King's daughter flees in a fur cloak to become a kitchen maid» 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 precondition | det |
| 2 | precondition | precondition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 5 | deceased | decease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Queen | amod |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 impose | nsubj |
| 7 | impose | impose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 King | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 impose | obl |
| 11 | regarding | regard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 marriage | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 marriage | det |
| 13 | subsequent | subsequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 marriage | amod |
| 14 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 impose | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | what precondition | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | decease | participle | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | impose | present | the deceased Queen | upon the King; regard any subsequent marriage | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | regard | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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
a bride as beautiful as the first queen was in her youth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bride | det |
| 2 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 youth | nsubj |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 beautiful | advmod |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bride | amod |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 queen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 queen | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 queen | amod |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beautiful | obl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 youth | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 youth | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 youth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a bride | bride's youth | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a bride equal in beauty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bride | det |
| 2 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 equal | nsubj |
| 3 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 beauty | case |
| 5 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 equal | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a queen as fair as she
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fair | nsubj |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 fair | case |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 she | case |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fair | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a bride equal in beauty and in golden hair too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bride | det |
| 2 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 equal | nsubj |
| 3 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 beauty | case |
| 5 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 equal | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hair | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hair | case |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hair | amod |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beauty | conj |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 equal | advmod |
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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