Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 15: Rapunzel is locked…

By what means does the enchantress ascend to the window of the tower?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: enchantress · What happens: mean, ascend · To what, where: window

This is exam question 1 of lesson 739 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 15: Rapunzel is locked in a tower, and a prince learns how to climb up to her» 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 ascend	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ascend	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 enchantress	det
6	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ascend	nsubj
7	ascend	ascend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 window	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 window	det
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ascend	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 tower	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tower	det
13	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 window	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 ascend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	ascend	present · do-support	the enchantress			the window of the tower			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location

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

By the braided hair of the maiden, climbing hand over hand from the garden below

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 hair	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hair	det
3	braided	braid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hair	amod
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	15 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 garden	det
7	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 garden	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 climbing	punct
9	climbing	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 garden	csubj
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 climbing	obj
11	over	over	ADP	_	12 hand	case
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 climbing	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 garden	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 garden	det
15	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hair	nmod
16	below	below	ADV	_	15 garden	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	braid	participle							vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	climb	gerund		hand		hand			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hand=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Through the open window of the old hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	4 window	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 window	det
3	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 window	amod
4	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 hall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hall	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hall	amod
8	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 window	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By the braided hair of the maiden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 hair	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hair	det
3	braided	braid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hair	amod
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 maiden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maiden	det
7	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hair	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	braid	participle							vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

By the long plaited hair of the girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	5 hair	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hair	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hair	amod
4	plaited	plait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hair	amod
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 girl	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hair	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plait	participle							vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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