Exam question 2 · Grimm Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, part 1: the youngest s…
What was the precise response of the king upon receiving the golden feather?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: precise response · What happens: be, receive · To what, where: golden feather
This is exam question 2 of lesson 725 «Grimm Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, part 1: the youngest son catches the bird, is caught, and must fetch a golden horse» 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=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 response | det |
| 4 | precise | precise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 response | amod |
| 5 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 response | nmod |
| 9 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 10 receiving | mark |
| 10 | receiving | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 response | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 feather | det |
| 12 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feather | amod |
| 13 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 receiving | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the precise response of the king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | receive | gerund | the precise response of the king not said here | the golden feather | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=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
He demanded the entire golden bird, alive, in a cage, by the next morning
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 demanded | nsubj |
| 2 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 4 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bird | amod |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bird | amod |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 demanded | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 alive | punct |
| 8 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 demanded | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cage | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 cage | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cage | det |
| 12 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 demanded | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 morning | punct |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 morning | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 morning | det |
| 16 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 morning | amod |
| 17 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 demanded | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | past | He | the entire golden bird | a cage | morning | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bird=Precondition |
Option 2
He ordered a golden feather bowl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bowl | det |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bowl | amod |
| 5 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bowl | compound |
| 6 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | He | a golden feather bowl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
He demanded the entire golden bird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 demanded | nsubj |
| 2 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 4 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bird | amod |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bird | amod |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 demanded | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | past | He | the entire golden bird | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bird=Precondition |
Option 4
He was furious and demanded that the youngest son bring the entire golden bird and horse
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 furious | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 furious | cop |
| 3 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 demanded | cc |
| 5 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 furious | conj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 bring | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 8 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 son | amod |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | nsubj |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 demanded | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 12 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bird | amod |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bird | amod |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 horse | cc |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bird | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | furious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | past | He not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | the youngest son | the entire golden bird and horse | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bird=Destination |
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