Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Allerleirauh, part 60: Joringel wins…

What garment did the Princess demand be fashioned before she would consent to the marriage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: garment, she · What happens: be, consent

This is exam question 3 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 garment	det
2	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fashioned	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fashioned	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 demand	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 demand	compound
6	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fashioned	nsubj
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 fashioned	cop
8	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 consent	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 consent	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 consent	aux
12	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fashioned	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 marriage	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 marriage	det
15	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 consent	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 fashioned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · do-support	what garment					fashioned property	tree rules
2	consent	would	she					to the marriage	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to marriage=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 · ← Mova's choice

a cloak of fur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cloak	det
2	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 fur	case
4	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cloak	nmod

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

Option 2

a cloak of a thousand skins and a crown of golden stars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cloak	det
2	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 skins	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thousand	det
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 skins	nummod
6	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cloak	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 crown	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 crown	det
9	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skins	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 stars	case
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stars	amod
12	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 crown	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crown			golden stars					nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

a mantle of many furs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mantle	det
2	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 furs	case
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 furs	amod
5	furs	fur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mantle	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a cloak of a thousand skins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cloak	det
2	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 skins	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thousand	det
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 skins	nummod
6	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cloak	nmod

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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