Exam question 4 · Grimm's Household Tales, Hans in Luck, part 3: Hans trades…

Identify the local authority figure whose pig was feared to be stolen.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, fear, steal · To what, where: local authority figure, pig

This is exam question 4 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	5 figure	det
3	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 figure	amod
4	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 figure	compound
5	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 pig	nmod:poss
7	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feared	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 feared	aux:pass
9	feared	fear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 figure	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	12 stolen	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 stolen	aux:pass
12	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 feared	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the local authority figure	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent figure=Theme
2	fear	past · passive		pig	tree rules
3	steal	to-infinitive · passive			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»

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 right answer

the squire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 squire	det
2	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the squire's own men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 squire	det
2	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 men	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 squire	case
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

the man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the butcher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 butcher	det
2	butcher	butcher	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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