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

Specify the part of the body which the cow struck.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cow · What happens: specify, strike · To what, where: part

This is exam question 3 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	Specify	specify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 part	det
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Specify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 body	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 body	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 part	nmod
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 struck	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 struck	nsubj
10	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 part	acl:relcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Specify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	specify	imperative	you not said here	the part of the body					vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent part=Theme
2	strike	past	the cow	the part of the body					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient

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

his left shoulder blade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 blade	nmod:poss
2	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blade	amod
3	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blade	compound
4	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the back of the head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 back	det
2	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 head	det
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 back	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	head	head	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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