Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the gol…

Which faculty did the golden lad lose upon the witch's enchantment?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: faculty, golden lad, witch · What happens: do, lose, enchant · To what, where: golden lad

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1931 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the golden lad is turned to stone» 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 faculty	det
2	faculty	faculty	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	6 lad	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lad	amod
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lad	acl:relcl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 enchantment	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 witch	det
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 enchantment	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 witch	case
12	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	which faculty	the golden lad	upon the witch's enchantment	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Eventuality
2	lose	present	the golden lad not said here			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	enchant		the witch			nom enchantment «feeling 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 power of movement in his legs and arms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 power	det
2	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 movement	case
4	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 power	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 legs	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 legs	nmod:poss
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 power	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 arms	cc
9	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 legs	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the power of movement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 power	det
2	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 movement	case
4	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 power	nmod

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

Option 3

the use of his hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 use	det
2	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 hands	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use			his hands					nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

the power of movement and speech

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 power	det
2	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 movement	case
4	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 power	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 speech	cc
6	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 power	conj

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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