Exam question 1 · Grimm's Household Tales, Hans in Luck, part 3: Hans trades…

Identify the animal which Hans exchanged for a cow.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Hans · What happens: identify, exchange · To what, where: animal

This is exam question 1 of lesson 727 «Grimm's Household Tales, Hans in Luck, part 3: Hans trades his goose for a grindstone» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 animal	det
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 exchanged	obj
5	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 exchanged	nsubj
6	exchanged	exchange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 animal	acl:relcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 cow	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exchanged	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the animal					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
2	exchange	past	Hans	the animal				for a cow	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent which=Theme for cow=Co-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

the grey horse with the saddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 saddle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 saddle	det
6	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 horse	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the horse and his bridle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bridle	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bridle	nmod:poss
5	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 horse	conj

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

Option 4

mule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mule	mule	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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