Exam question 3 · Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning gi…

What did the King's son resolve regarding the qualities of his prospective bride?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, regard · To what, where: son resolve

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 resolve	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 King	case
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 resolve	compound
7	resolve	resolve	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
8	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 qualities	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 qualities	det
10	qualities	quality	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 bride	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bride	nmod:poss
13	prospective	prospective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bride	amod
14	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 qualities	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the King's son resolve				regard the qualities of King's prospective bride	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resolve=Eventuality
2	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 · ← Mova's choice

that she should be the poorest maid and the richest lady of the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 maid	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 maid	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 maid	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 maid	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maid	det
6	poorest	poor	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 maid	amod
7	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lady	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lady	det
10	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 lady	amod
11	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 maid	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 land	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 land	det
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lady	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	should	she	the poorest maid and the richest lady of the land					tree rules

Option 2

that she should be both the poorest and the richest in the realm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 poorest	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 poorest	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 poorest	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 poorest	cop
5	both	both	CCONJ	_	7 poorest	cc:preconj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 poorest	det
7	poorest	poor	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 richest	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 richest	det
10	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 poorest	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 realm	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 realm	det
13	realm	realm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 richest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	she					poor property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here			the realm			tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

that she should be the poorest and the richest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 poorest	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 poorest	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 poorest	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 poorest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 poorest	det
6	poorest	poor	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 richest	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 richest	det
9	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 poorest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	she					poor property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here						tree rules

Option 4

that she should be the wisest and the bravest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 wisest	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wisest	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wisest	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 wisest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wisest	det
6	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bravest	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bravest	det
9	bravest	brave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 wisest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	she					wise property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here						tree rules

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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