Exam question 2 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: Ilsab…

What instruction does the fish give the fisherman at the close of the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: instruction, fish · What happens: do, give · To what, where: fisherman, close

This is exam question 2 of lesson 734 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: Ilsabill wants to be king, emperor, pope, then lord of the sun and moon» 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 instruction	det
2	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fisherman	det
8	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 close	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 close	det
11	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 passage	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 passage	det
14	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 close	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	what instruction						tree rules
2	give	present	the fish	the fisherman		the close of the passage			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent fisherman=Theme at close=Asset

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

to return to the pigsty and never bother her again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 return	mark
2	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 pigsty	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pigsty	det
5	pigsty	pigsty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 return	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bother	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 bother	advmod
8	bother	bother	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 return	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bother	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 bother	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	to-infinitive						to the pigsty result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to pigsty=Result
2	not bother	infinitive		her = she			again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

Option 2

to return at once to the pigsty and stay there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 return	mark
2	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 return	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 pigsty	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pigsty	det
7	pigsty	pigsty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 return	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stay	cc
9	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 return	conj
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	to-infinitive						to the pigsty result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to pigsty=Result
2	stay	infinitive				there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to return to the pigsty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 return	mark
2	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 pigsty	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pigsty	det
5	pigsty	pigsty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 return	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	to-infinitive						to the pigsty result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to pigsty=Result

Option 4

to go back to his hut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 go	mark
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 hut	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hut	nmod:poss
6	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	to-infinitive						to his hut result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hut=Result

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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