Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the…

Which phrase is inscribed upon the girdle of the tailor?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: inscribe · To what, where: phrase, girdle

This is exam question 1 of lesson 741 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the tailor tricks the giants and wins a place at the king's court» 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 phrase	det
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 inscribed	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 inscribed	aux:pass
4	inscribed	inscribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 girdle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girdle	det
7	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 inscribed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 tailor	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tailor	det
10	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 girdle	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 inscribed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inscribe	present · passive		which phrase		the girdle of the tailor			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon girdle=Destination

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

Seven at one stroke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 stroke	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 stroke	nummod
4	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seven	nmod

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

Option 2

Seven flies and seven giants struck down with one mighty blow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 flies	nummod
2	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 giants	cc
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 giants	nummod
5	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flies	conj
6	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flies	acl
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 struck	compound:prt
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 blow	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 blow	nummod
10	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 blow	amod
11	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 struck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike down	participle		Seven flies and seven giants not said here				with one mighty blow	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with blow=Theme

Option 3

Seven struck in one blow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Seven	acl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 blow	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 blow	nummod
5	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	participle				one blow			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in blow=Location

Option 4

Seven blows in one stroke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 blows	nsubj
2	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 stroke	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 stroke	nummod
5	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	present	Seven			one stroke			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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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