Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: the greed…

With reference to the narrative, identify the object from which the wife's requests are obtained in the course of the tale.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, wife · What happens: identify, obtain, request · To what, where: object, requests

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1938 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: the greedy wife wants to be emperor, then pope, then god, and ends back in her hut» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 identify	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 narrative	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 narrative	det
5	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct
7	identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 object	det
9	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 identify	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 obtained	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wife	det
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 requests	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 wife	case
15	requests	request	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 obtained	nsubj:pass
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 obtained	aux:pass
17	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 object	acl:relcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 course	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 course	det
20	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 obtained	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 tale	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tale	det
23	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 course	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the object		with reference to the narrative	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
2	obtain	present · passive		the wife's requests	the object	in the course of the tale	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from which=Source
3	request		the wife				nom request «communication 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 right answer

the flounder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flounder	det
2	flounder	flounder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the magic sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sea	amod
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	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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