Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: the greed…

With reference to the narrative, identify the principal characteristic displayed by the wife throughout the tale.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, display · To what, where: principal characteristic

This is exam question 4 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 characteristic	det
9	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 characteristic	amod
10	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 identify	obj
11	displayed	display	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 characteristic	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 wife	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wife	det
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 displayed	obl
15	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	17 tale	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tale	det
17	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 displayed	obl
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 principal characteristic				with reference to the narrative	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent characteristic=Theme
2	display	participle		the principal characteristic not said here			throughout the tale	by the wife	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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

a constant and unending desire for more power

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 desire	det
2	constant	constant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 desire	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 unending	cc
4	unending	unending	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 constant	conj
5	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 power	case
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 power	amod
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 desire	nmod

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

Option 2

the wish to be above all other humans and gods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wish	det
2	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	8 humans	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 humans	cop
5	above	above	ADP	_	8 humans	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 humans	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 humans	amod
8	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wish	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gods	cc
10	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 humans	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						above all other humans and gods	tree rules

Option 3

great selfishness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 selfishness	amod
2	selfishness	selfishness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

insatiable greed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	insatiable	insatiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 greed	amod
2	greed	greed	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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