Exam question 4 · Grimm, The Golden Bird, part 2: brothers steal the prize,…

What quantity of silver did the master bestow upon Hans at parting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quantity · What happens: bestow · To what, where: parting

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 quantity	det
2	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bestow	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 silver	case
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quantity	nmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bestow	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 master	det
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bestow	nsubj
8	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 Hans	case
10	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 bestow	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 parting	case
12	parting	parting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bestow	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 bestow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bestow	past · do-support	what quantity of silver			parting		upon Hans	tree rules

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 bag of coins as big as a hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 big	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 coins	case
4	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bag	nmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 big	advmod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 hat	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hat	det
9	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 big	obl

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

Option 2

A lump as large as his head, wrapped carefully in a pocket-handkerchief

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lump	det
2	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 large	advmod
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lump	amod
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 large	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wrapped	punct
9	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lump	acl
10	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	9 wrapped	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 handkerchief	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 handkerchief	det
13	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 handkerchief	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 pocket	punct
15	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wrapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	participle		a lump not said here		a pocket handkerchief		carefully property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in handkerchief=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A lump as large as his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lump	det
2	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 large	nsubj
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 large	advmod
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 large	obl

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

Option 4

A small lump

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lump	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lump	amod
3	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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