Exam question 1 · Grimm, The White Snake, part 1: the servant gets animal ta…

Which of the following did the servant consume from the covered dish before he understood the speech of the sparrows?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: follow, consume, cover, understand, speak · To what, where: covered dish, speech, sparrows · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1932 «Grimm, The White Snake, part 1: the servant gets animal talk and the animals repay his kindness» 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

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

a small piece of the black toad

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a small piece of the white snake

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

Option 3

a large piece of the white snake that the cook had roasted on the spit

Option 4

a small piece of the white snake, and then a cup of wine from the King's cellar

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

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