Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Allerleirauh, part 60: Joringel wins…

Upon what object did the Princess rely in order to conceal her identity within the palace?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, Princess · What happens: do, rely, conceal · To what, where: order, identity

This is exam question 4 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rely	nsubj
7	rely	rely	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 order	case
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rely	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 conceal	mark
11	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 rely	advcl
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 identity	nmod:poss
13	identity	identity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 conceal	obj
14	within	within	ADP	_	16 palace	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 palace	det
16	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 conceal	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	object				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rely	present	the Princess		order		vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	conceal	to-infinitive	the Princess not said here	Princess's identity		within the palace	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent identity=Patient

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

ashes on her cheeks and hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 cheeks	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cheeks	nmod:poss
4	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 ashes	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hands	cc
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cheeks	conj

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

Option 2

soot upon her face and hands and the old fur cloak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 face	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 soot	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hands	cc
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 face	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cloak	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cloak	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cloak	amod
10	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cloak	compound
11	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 face	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

soot upon her face and hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 face	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 soot	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hands	cc
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 face	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a thick layer of black soot smeared all over her face and hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 layer	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 layer	amod
3	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smeared	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 soot	case
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soot	amod
6	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 layer	nmod
7	smeared	smear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	all	all	ADV	_	11 face	advmod
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 face	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smeared	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hands	cc
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 face	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smear	past	a thick layer of black soot	layer's face and hands					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Theme

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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