Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince…

Which instrument did the farmer's son request from his father at the fair?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: instrument, farmer · What happens: do, request · To what, where: son request, fair

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 instrument	det
2	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 farmer	det
5	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 request	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 farmer	case
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 request	compound
8	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 father	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 fair	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fair	det
14	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which instrument	the farmer's son request		the fair		from instrument's father	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality
2	request		the farmer						nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

a bagpipe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bagpipe	det
2	bagpipe	bagpipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a bagpipe and a fine red cloak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bagpipe	det
2	bagpipe	bagpipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cloak	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cloak	det
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cloak	amod
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cloak	amod
7	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bagpipe	conj

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

Option 3

a flute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 flute	det
2	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a fiddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fiddle	det
2	fiddle	fiddle	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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