Exam question 4 · Grimm Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, part 1: the youngest s…

Which instruction did the fox give concerning the saddle to be fitted upon the golden horse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: instruction, fox · What happens: do, give, concern, fit

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 instruction	det
2	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fox	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 saddle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 saddle	det
9	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	12 fitted	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 fitted	aux:pass
12	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 saddle	acl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 horse	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 horse	det
15	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 horse	amod
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fitted	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	which instruction		tree rules
2	give	present	the fox	concern the saddle	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	concern	gerund			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	fit	to-infinitive · passive	the fox not said here	upon the golden horse	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: upon horse=Trajectory

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

To use the old leathern saddle and not the golden one the king offered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 use	mark
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 saddle	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saddle	amod
5	leathern	leathern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saddle	amod
6	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 one	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 one	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saddle	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	obj
14	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 king	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	to-infinitive		the old leathern saddle and the golden one					tree rules
2	offer	participle		the king not said here					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

Option 2

To use the leathern bridle only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 use	mark
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bridle	det
4	leathern	leathern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bridle	amod
5	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	obj
6	only	only	ADV	_	2 use	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To use the old leathern saddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 use	mark
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 saddle	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saddle	amod
5	leathern	leathern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saddle	amod
6	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	obj

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

Option 4

To use the old leathern saddle, which the fox had found in the stable loft

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 use	mark
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 saddle	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saddle	amod
5	leathern	leathern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saddle	amod
6	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 found	nsubj:pass
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fox	det
10	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	aux
12	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 saddle	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 loft	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 loft	det
15	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 loft	amod
16	loft	loft	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	to-infinitive		the old leathern saddle					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Patient
2	find	past · perfect · passive		the old leathern saddle		the stable loft			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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