Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel: a fairy turns a…

Which object did Hans lose in the river?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: lose · To what, where: river

This is exam question 1 of lesson 728 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel: a fairy turns a maiden into a nightingale, and her shepherd lover wins her back» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lose	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lose	aux
4	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lose	nsubj
5	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lose	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · do-support	which object			the river			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in river=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

The cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The heavy stone he had carried all the way from home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stone	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stone	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	nsubj:pass
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carried	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 carried	aux
6	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 way	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	obl:unmarked
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 home	case
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · perfect · passive		the heavy stone		home		all way obl:unmarked	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from home=Initial_Location

Option 3

The coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The heavy stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stone	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stone	amod
3	stone	stone	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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