Exam question 3 · Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learn…

What did the cook's master intend to do with the guest, according to Gretel's warning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: master, Gretel · What happens: intend, do, accord, warn

This is exam question 3 of lesson 750 «Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learns the dwarf's name, and Gretel eats the fowls» 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	7 intend	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 intend	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cook	det
4	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 master	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 cook	case
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 intend	nsubj
7	intend	intend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 intend	xcomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 guest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 guest	det
12	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 warning	punct
14	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 warning	case
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 according	fixed
16	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 warning	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Gretel	case
18	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 intend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	intend	past · do-support	the cook's master		tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the cook's master not said here	with the guest; accord Gretel's warning	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	accord	gerund			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	warn		Gretel		nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

Cut off both ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Cut	compound:prt
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 ears	det
4	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	imperative	you not said here	both ears					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector ear=Eventuality

Option 2

Cut both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	imperative	you not said here	both					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset both=Product

Option 3

Cut off his nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Cut	compound:prt
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 nose	nmod:poss
4	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	imperative	you not said here	his nose					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector nose=Eventuality

Option 4

Cut off ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Cut	compound:prt
3	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	imperative	you not said here	ears					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector ear=Eventuality

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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