Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundre…

Which object did the princess handle before falling into her sleep?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, fall, sleep · To what, where: princess handle, sleep

This is exam question 1 of lesson 731 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundred years' sleep, and a prince's kiss» 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	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 handle	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handle	compound
6	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 falling	mark
8	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 did	advcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 sleep	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sleep	nmod:poss
11	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 falling	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the princess handle		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handle=Eventuality
2	fall	gerund	which object not said here		into object's sleep result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result
3	sleep		object			nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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 needle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the thread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rope	det
2	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the spindle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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