Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince…

By what means did the Prince ensure the Princess left her garment behind?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince, Princess · What happens: mean, ensure, leave · To what, where: garment

This is exam question 4 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 ensure	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ensure	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ensure	nsubj
7	ensure	ensure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	nsubj
10	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ensure	ccomp
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 garment	nmod:poss
12	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obj
13	behind	behind	ADV	_	10 left	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 ensure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	ensure	past · do-support	the Prince			vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme
3	leave	past	the Princess	Princess's garment	behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garment=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

by tugging it free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 tugging	mark
2	tugging	tug	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tugging	obj
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tugging	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tug	gerund		it				free property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

by tearing it off and throwing it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 tearing	mark
2	tearing	tear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tearing	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 tearing	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 throwing	cc
6	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 tearing	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 throwing	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 throwing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear off	gerund		it					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
2	throw away	gerund		it				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

by holding it firmly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 holding	mark
2	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 holding	obj
4	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	2 holding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund		it				firmly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

by holding it firmly while she begged him to let go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 holding	mark
2	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 begged	advcl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 holding	obj
4	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	2 holding	advmod
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 begged	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 begged	nsubj
7	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 begged	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 let	mark
10	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 begged	advcl
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund	she not said here	it		firmly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past	she		him = he		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	let	to-infinitive	she not said here				tree rules
4	go	infinitive	she not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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