Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel: a fairy turns a…

Where did the ass resolve to travel when his master planned to end him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ass, master · What happens: resolve, travel, plan, end · To what, where: master

This is exam question 4 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 resolve	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 resolve	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ass	det
4	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 resolve	nsubj
5	resolve	resolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 travel	mark
7	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 resolve	xcomp
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 planned	advmod
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 master	nmod:poss
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 planned	nsubj
11	planned	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 travel	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 end	mark
13	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 planned	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 end	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 resolve	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	resolve	past · do-support	the ass		tree rules
2	travel	to-infinitive	the ass not said here		tree rules
3	plan	past	ass's master		vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	end not said to happen	to-infinitive	ass's master not said here	master	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=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 right answer

To the great city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	4 city	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 city	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 city	amod
4	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Away	away	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3

To town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 town	case
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

To the far hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	4 hills	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hills	det
3	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hills	amod
4	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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