Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a w…
Following his restoration, what form of sustenance and apparel was provided to the subject Thumb?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: restoration · What happens: follow, form, provide · To what, where: restoration, subject Thumb
This is exam question 4 of lesson 749 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a wolf, Tom talks his way out and goes home» 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 | Following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 provided | mark |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 restoration | nmod:poss |
| 3 | restoration | restoration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 provided | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 form | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 form | nsubj |
| 6 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 restoration | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sustenance | case |
| 8 | sustenance | sustenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 form | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 apparel | cc |
| 10 | apparel | apparel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sustenance | conj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 provided | aux:pass |
| 12 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Thumb | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Thumb | det |
| 15 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Thumb | compound |
| 16 | Thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 provided | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 provided | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | form | his restoration | of sustenance and apparel | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | provide | past · passive | his restoration | the subject Thumb | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to thumb=Recipient |
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
Nourishment and new attire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nourishment | nourishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 attire | cc |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 attire | amod |
| 4 | attire | attire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nourishment | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Clothes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Refreshment and fresh garments
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Refreshment | refreshment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 garments | cc |
| 3 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 garments | amod |
| 4 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Refreshment | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Sustenance and fresh clothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sustenance | sustenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 clothing | cc |
| 3 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 clothing | amod |
| 4 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sustenance | conj |
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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