Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little Red-Cap, part 1: a wolf tricks…

By what means did the wolf disguise himself upon entering the grandmother's dwelling?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, do, enter · To what, where: wolf disguise, dwelling · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 746 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little Red-Cap, part 1: a wolf tricks Red-Cap off the path and eats her grandmother» 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	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 disguise	det
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 disguise	compound
7	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 did	obl:unmarked
9	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	10 entering	mark
10	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 did	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 grandmother	det
12	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dwelling	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 grandmother	case
14	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 entering	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past	the wolf disguise	himself = he obl:unmarked	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disguise=Eventuality
3	enter	gerund	the grandmother's dwelling		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dwelling=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

by wearing her clothes and hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 wearing	mark
2	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 clothes	nmod:poss
4	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 wearing	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hat	cc
6	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clothes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	gerund		her clothes and hat					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

by donning her garments and cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 donning	mark
2	donning	don	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 garments	nmod:poss
4	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 donning	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cap	cc
6	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 garments	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	don	gerund		her garments and cap					vn simple_dressing-41.3.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garment=Theme

Option 3

with her dress and nightcap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	3 dress	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dress	nmod:poss
3	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nightcap	cc
5	nightcap	nightcap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dress	conj

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

Option 4

by carefully donning all of her garments and her cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	3 donning	mark
2	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	3 donning	advmod
3	donning	don	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 garments	det
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 garments	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 garments	nmod:poss
7	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 donning	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cap	cc
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cap	nmod:poss
10	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 garments	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	don	gerund		her garments and her cap				carefully property	vn simple_dressing-41.3.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garment=Theme

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