Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, part…

What reward did the fox offer the cat and dog in return for their aid?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, do, offer · To what, where: fox, cat, return

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1936 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, part 73: the cruel brothers are banished, and the old cat and dog join the fox's war» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 offer	nsubj:outer
2	reward	reward	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fox	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 offer	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dog	cc
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cat	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 return	case
12	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 offer	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 aid	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 aid	nmod:poss
15	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 return	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 offer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present			tree rules
2	do	past	the fox		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality
3	offer	present	the cat and dog	return for cat's aid	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent cat=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 · ← Mova's choice

A whole week of sausages and mice to eat, plus a golden bell each

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 week	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 week	amod
3	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bell	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 sausages	case
5	sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 week	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mice	cc
7	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sausages	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 eat	mark
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 mice	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bell	punct
11	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	14 bell	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bell	det
13	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bell	amod
14	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 bell	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Their master's love and a warm bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 master	nmod:poss
2	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 love	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 master	case
4	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bed	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bed	det
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bed	amod
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 love	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love		Their master						nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Food and a warm place to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 place	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 place	det
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 place	amod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Food	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sleep	mark
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 place	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	to-infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Restoration to their master's favour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Restoration	restoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	6 favour	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 master	nmod:poss
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 favour	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 master	case
6	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Restoration	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	favour		their master						nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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