Exam question 1 · Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning gi…

Upon what material did the Lion propose that the King should test the huntsmen's gait?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lion, King · What happens: propose, test · To what, where: gait

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1925 «Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning girl's spindle leads a prince to her door» 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	7 propose	obl
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 propose	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Lion	det
6	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 propose	nsubj
7	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 test	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 test	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 test	aux
12	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 propose	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 huntsmen	det
14	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gait	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 huntsmen	case
16	gait	gait	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 test	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 propose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past · do-support	the Lion						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	test	should	the King	the huntsmen's gait					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gait=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

peas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

beans spread on the stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spread	nsubj
2	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 stone	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stone	det
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	present	beans			the stone			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stone=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

peas strewn upon the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	strewn	strewn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 peas	acl
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 floor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floor	det
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 strewn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strewn	participle		peas not said here				upon the floor	tree rules

Option 4

rice on the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 floor	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 floor	det
4	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 rice	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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