Exam question 1 · Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the witch chases the lo…

What form did the maiden assume when she first eluded the witch on the lake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maiden · What happens: be, assume, elude · To what, where: witch, lake

This is exam question 1 of lesson 754 «Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the witch chases the lovers, Roland forgets, and Snowdrop is sent into the wood» 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=Rel	6 assume	obl
2	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 assume	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maiden	det
5	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 assume	nsubj
6	assume	assume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 eluded	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 eluded	nsubj
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 eluded	advmod
10	eluded	elude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 assume	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 witch	det
12	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eluded	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 lake	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lake	det
15	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eluded	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 assume	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present					tree rules
2	assume	past · do-support	the maiden				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	elude	past	maiden	the witch	the lake	first property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent witch=Location

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

A duck that could swim in the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 duck	det
2	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 swim	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 swim	aux
5	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 duck	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 lake	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lake	det
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	could	a duck			the lake			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Trajectory

Option 2

A swan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

A little duck with white feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 duck	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 duck	amod
3	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 feathers	case
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feathers	amod
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 duck	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A duck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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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