Exam question 1 · Grimm, The Golden Bird, part 2: brothers steal the prize,…

Which counsel of the fox did the youngest son disregard, with consequences to his person?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: counsel · What happens: do · To what, where: youngest son disregard

This is exam question 1 of lesson 726 «Grimm, The Golden Bird, part 2: brothers steal the prize, Hans sets off home» 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 counsel	det
2	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 fox	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fox	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 counsel	nmod
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 disregard	det
8	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 disregard	amod
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 disregard	compound
10	disregard	disregard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 consequences	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 consequences	case
13	consequences	consequence	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 disregard	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 person	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 person	nmod:poss
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which counsel of the fox	the youngest son disregard and consequences				to counsel's person	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disregard=Eventuality

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

Taking a long drink from the river before going on towards the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 drink	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drink	amod
4	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obl
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 going	mark
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Taking	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 going	compound:prt
11	towards	towards	ADP	_	13 wood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wood	det
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		a long drink		the river			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent drink=Theme from river=Initial_Location
2	go on	gerund						towards the wood	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sitting down beside the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Sitting	advmod
3	beside	beside	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	gerund				the river		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside river=Location

Option 3

Sitting down beside the river to rest, despite the fox's clear warning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Sitting	advmod
3	beside	beside	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 rest	mark
7	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sitting	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 warning	punct
9	despite	despite	ADP	_	14 warning	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fox	det
11	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 warning	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 fox	case
13	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 warning	amod
14	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	gerund		the river	despite the fox's clear warning; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside river=Location
2	rest	to-infinitive				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	warn		the fox			nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Eating the bread too quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bread	det
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eating	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 quickly	advmod
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Eating	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		the bread				quickly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient

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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