Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, part 19: the child…

Which phrase best describes the sustenance the children possessed at the conclusion of the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: phrase · What happens: describe, possess, conclude · To what, where: sustenance, children, conclusion, passage

This is exam question 3 of lesson 743 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, part 19: the children are led into the forest and get lost» 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 describes	nsubj
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 describes	advmod
4	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sustenance	det
6	sustenance	sustenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 children	det
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 describes	obj
9	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 children	acl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 conclusion	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 conclusion	det
12	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 possessed	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 passage	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 passage	det
15	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 conclusion	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	describe	present	which phrase	the sustenance		well property	tree rules
2	possess	participle		the children not said here	the conclusion of the passage		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	conclude			the passage			nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=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

Two or three wild berries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 berries	nummod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 three	cc
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Two	conj
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 berries	amod
5	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Berries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Some scraps of stale bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 scraps	det
2	scraps	scrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 bread	case
4	stale	stale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bread	amod
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scraps	nmod

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

Option 4

A handful of wild plums

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 handful	det
2	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 plums	case
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plums	amod
5	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 handful	nmod

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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