Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little Red-Cap, part 1: a wolf tricks…

What was the ultimate consequence of the lazy girl's neglect of her duties in Mother Holle's household?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lazy girl · What happens: be, neglect · To what, where: ultimate consequence, duties

This is exam question 3 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	5 consequence	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 consequence	det
4	ultimate	ultimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 consequence	amod
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 neglect	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
8	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girl	amod
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 neglect	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 girl	case
11	neglect	neglect	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 duties	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 duties	nmod:poss
14	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 neglect	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 household	case
16	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 household	nmod:poss
17	Holle	Holle	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Mother	flat
18	's	's	PART	_	16 Mother	case
19	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 duties	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the ultimate consequence				of the lazy girl's neglect of girl's duties in Mother's household	tree rules
2	neglect		the lazy girl	girl's duties in Mother's household					nom neglect «cognition transitive»: poss=agent 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

she was sent home covered in pitch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
5	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sent	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 pitch	case
7	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		she				home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	cover	participle						in pitch	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pitch=Theme

Option 2

she was punished with pitch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 punished	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 punished	aux:pass
3	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 pitch	case
5	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 punished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	past · passive		she				with pitch	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: subject=Patient with pitch=Theme

Option 3

she was sent home to her mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 mother	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		she	her mother			home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to mother=Destination

Option 4

she was sent to bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 bed	case
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		she		bed			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to bed=Destination

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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