Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Clever Tailor: the tai…

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the colours of the hair the Princess claimed to possess?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: colours · What happens: follow, describe, claim, possess

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1933 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Clever Tailor: the tailor guesses the Princess's hair and tames the bear» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 describes	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 describes	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 describes	advmod
8	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 colours	det
10	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 claimed	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 hair	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hair	det
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 colours	nmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 claimed	nsubj
16	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 describes	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 possess	mark
18	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 claimed	xcomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe	present		of the following statements; accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	claim speech: other	past	the colours of the hair		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	possess	to-infinitive	the colours of the hair not said here		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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 Princess stated one hair was red and one was brown.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stated	nsubj
3	stated	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hair	nummod
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 red	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 red	cop
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stated	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 brown	cc
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 brown	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 brown	cop
11	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 red	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	past	the Princess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	one hair	red property	tree rules
3	is	past	one	brown property	tree rules

Option 2

The Princess claimed two hairs were silver and gold, and that the tailors could never guess them.

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 claimed	nsubj
3	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hairs	nummod
5	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 silver	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 silver	cop
7	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 claimed	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gold	cc
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 silver	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 guess	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 guess	cc
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 guess	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tailors	det
14	tailors	tailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 guess	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 guess	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 guess	advmod
17	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 claimed	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 guess	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 claimed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	claim speech: other	past	the Princess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	two hairs	silver and gold	tree rules
3	not guess	could	the tailors	hairs = hair	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Princess claimed one hair was silver and one hair was golden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 claimed	nsubj
3	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hair	nummod
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 silver	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 silver	cop
7	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 claimed	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 golden	cc
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hair	nummod
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 golden	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 golden	cop
12	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 silver	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	past	the Princess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	one hair	silver property	tree rules
3	is	past	one hair	golden property	tree rules

Option 4

The Princess claimed her hair was brown and grey and white.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 claimed	nsubj
3	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hair	nmod:poss
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brown	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brown	cop
7	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 claimed	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grey	cc
9	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brown	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 white	cc
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brown	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 claimed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	past	the Princess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Princess's hair	brown property	tree rules
3	be		Princess's hair not said here		tree rules
4	be		Princess's hair not said here		tree rules

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