Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little Red-Cap, part 1: a wolf tricks…

What distance is employed in the text to describe the separation between the village and the grandmother's dwelling?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: employ, describe · To what, where: text, separation

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 employed	nsubj:pass
2	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 employed	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 employed	aux:pass
4	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 text	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 text	det
7	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 employed	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 describe	mark
9	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 employed	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 separation	det
11	separation	separation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 describe	obj
12	between	between	ADP	_	14 village	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 village	det
14	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 separation	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dwelling	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grandmother	det
17	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dwelling	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 grandmother	case
19	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 village	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 employed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	employ	present · passive				the text			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	describe	to-infinitive		the separation				between the village and the grandmother's dwelling	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent separation=Theme

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

half a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 day	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a mile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mile	det
2	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

half a league

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 league	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 league	det
3	league	league	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

half a league beyond the mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 league	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 league	det
3	league	league	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	6 mill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mill	det
6	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 league	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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