Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince…

What did the Prince's servant remove from the Princess's maid on the first night?

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

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1929 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince outwits the Princess, and a hedgehog-boy rides a cock to the forest» 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 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 remove	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Prince	case
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remove	compound
7	remove	remove	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	12 maid	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 maid	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Princess	case
12	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 night	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 night	det
15	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 night	amod
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Prince's servant remove			night	from the Princess's maid	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remove=Eventuality

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

the ring from her finger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ring	det
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 finger	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 finger	nmod:poss
5	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ring	nmod

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

Option 2

her gloves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 gloves	nmod:poss
2	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

her cloak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cloak	nmod:poss
2	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

her shoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shoe	nmod:poss
2	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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