Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundre…

By what means did the prince rouse the princess from her slumber?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince, princess · What happens: mean, rouse, slumber · To what, where: princess, slumber

This is exam question 3 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 rouse	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rouse	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rouse	nsubj
7	rouse	rouse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 princess	det
9	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rouse	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 slumber	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 slumber	nmod:poss
12	slumber	slumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rouse	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 rouse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	rouse	past · do-support	the prince	the princess	princess's slumber	vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
3	slumber		princess			nom slumber «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

by singing a song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 singing	mark
2	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 song	det
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 singing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund		a song					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 2

with a kiss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	3 kiss	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kiss	det
3	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

by bestowing a kiss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 bestowing	mark
2	bestowing	bestow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kiss	det
4	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bestowing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bestow	gerund		a kiss					tree rules

Option 4

by a kiss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 kiss	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kiss	det
3	kiss	kiss	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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