Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: the greed…

With reference to the narrative, identify the ultimate office the wife desires after that of pope.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wife · What happens: identify, desire · To what, where: ultimate office

This is exam question 3 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	10 office	det
9	ultimate	ultimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 office	amod
10	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 identify	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wife	det
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 desires	nsubj
13	desires	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 identify	parataxis
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 that	case
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 desires	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 pope	case
17	pope	pope	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 that	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the ultimate office				with reference to the narrative	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent office=Theme
2	desire	present	the wife				after that		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: 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

a duke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 duke	det
2	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a god

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 god	det
2	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

pope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pope	pope	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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