Exam question 4 · Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learn…

Which action of the cook Gretel is described as taking place in the cellar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cook · What happens: describe, take, act · To what, where: action, place, cellar

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 action	det
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 described	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cook	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cook	det
5	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 action	nmod
6	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 described	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 described	aux:pass
8	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 taking	mark
10	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 described	advcl
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taking	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 cellar	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cellar	det
14	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taking	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		which action of the cook		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	take	gerund		place	the cellar	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in cellar=Location
3	act		the cook			nom action «act intransitive»: of=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

Sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Cooking the fowls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fowls	det
3	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cooking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	gerund		the fowls					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fowl=Patient

Option 3

Drinking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Drinking wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drinking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund		wine					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient

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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