Exam question 4 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: Ilsab…

Which natural event does Ilsabill resent most upon waking in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ilsabill · What happens: resent, wake · To what, where: most, passage

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 does	obj
2	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 event	amod
3	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 resent	aux
5	Ilsabill	Ilsabill	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 resent	nsubj
6	resent	resent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 resent	obj
8	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	9 waking	mark
9	waking	wake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 resent	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 passage	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 passage	det
12	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 waking	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 resent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resent	present · do-support	Ilsabill	most					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer most=Stimulus
2	wake	gerund	Ilsabill not said here			the passage			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

the rising of the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rising	det
2	rising	rising	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rising	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise		the sun						nom rising «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

the setting of the moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 setting	det
2	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 moon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moon	det
5	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 setting	nmod

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

Option 3

the rising of the sun and its bright light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rising	det
2	rising	rising	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rising	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 light	cc
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 light	nmod:poss
8	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 light	amod
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rising	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise		the sun						nom rising «event intransitive»: of=agent
2	light		sun						nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

the coming of the rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coming	det
2	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 rain	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rain	det
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	gerund						of the rain	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of rain=Initial_Location

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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