Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the gol…

Which prohibition did the wife's curiosity repeatedly violate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: prohibition, curiosity · What happens: do, violate · To what, where: curiosity

This is exam question 3 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 prohibition	det
2	prohibition	prohibition	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 wife	det
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 curiosity	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 wife	case
7	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	repeatedly	repeatedly	ADV	_	9 violate	advmod
9	violate	violate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 curiosity	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which prohibition	the wife's curiosity					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curiosity=Eventuality
2	violate	infinitive	the wife's curiosity not said here					repeatedly property	tree rules

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

the injunction against disclosure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the warning about the cupboard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 warning	det
2	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 cupboard	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cupboard	det
5	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warning	nmod

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

Option 3

the command about the castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 command	det
2	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 castle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 castle	det
5	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 command	nmod

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

Option 4

the promise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 promise	det
2	promise	promise	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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